Running from Bondage, Karen Cook Bell
Running from Bondage, Karen Cook Bell
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Running from Bondage
Enslaved Women and their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

Author: Karen Cook Bell

Narrator: L. Malaika Cooper

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/09/2022

Synopsis

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

About Karen Cook Bell

Karen Cook Bell is associate professor of history at Bowie State University. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. She specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women's history.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paperwitches ♡

This book provides an amazing insight into the lives and escapes of women in slavery. It’s emotional, but also factual and informative. It handles the dark subject matter well, from an analytical point of view without getting emotionally involved or opinionated on any content within the book. It hel......more

Goodreads review by Marisa

Absolutely phenomenal. Karen Cook Bell really sheds light on a topic that hasn't received a lot of attention in the history world. Books about slavery tend to lean towards the 1800s, but there aren't anywhere near as many about slavery in the 18th century. Even more scarce than that is books about s......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn

“Tracing the movement of enslaved women in, out of, and through spaces in colonial America and the Atlantic world provides an unmediated microcosm of Black female agency.” (Page 66). What these women went through and experienced is not describable. Their lives can never be recovered- but yet underst......more

Goodreads review by zoe

read for school i took so many notes about to write such a good paper guys don’t know how to rate though it was a good book i guess......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Bell provides a unique window through which to more deeply understand the life of females who were enslaved and their resistance to their enslaved status. I learn a great deal. I was particular intrigued by the fact that many females who fled from their enslavement stayed relative close to original......more

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