A Hard Fight for We : Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(18) PART 1: SLAVERY ``Women Always Did This Work'': Slave Women and Plantation Labor 19(28) ``Ties to Bind Them All Together'': The Social and Reproductive Labor of Slave Women 47(28) PART 2: SLAVERY'S WARTIME CRISIS ``A Hard Fight for We'': Slave Women and the Civil War 75(41) ``Without Mercy'': The End of War and the Final Destruction of Lowcountry Slavery 116(31) PART 3: DEFINING AND DEFENDING FREEDOM ``The Simple Act of Emancipation'': The First Year of Freedom 147(40) ``In Their Own Way'': Women and Work in the Postbellum South 187(47) ``And So to Establish Family Relations'': Race, Gender, and Family in the Postbellum Crisis of Free Labor 234(35) Notes 269(94) Bibliography 363(20) Index 383