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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery.

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9781469663593