Closer to Freedom

Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

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by Stephanie M. H. Camp

University of North Carolina Press

Due/Published September 2004, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0807855340

Focusing on female slaves' everyday forms of resistance--such as truancy, theft, and illegal parties--Camp argues that the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades, as slaves broke rules, spoke their minds, and ran away.