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Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South - Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings Virginia Meacham Gould
Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South - Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings
Virginia Meacham Gould
A unique collection of writings by free women of color in the South before the Civil War that offers valuable insight into their lives and times. They depict a tight-knit network of family and friends and show a family well aware of its precarious position in society, feared by most whites and resented by other blacks.
168 pages, 7 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 1, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820320830 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Genre | Chronological Period > 1851-1899 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 11 mm · 263 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Gould, Virginia Meacham |