Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives

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dc.contributor.authorLecaudey, Hélèneen
dc.contributor.committeechairWallenstein, Peter R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLux, David S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDunlap, Thomas R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLux, David S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDunlap, Thomasen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:41:10Zen
dc.date.adate2012-07-24en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:41:10Zen
dc.date.issued1989-09-05en
dc.date.rdate2012-07-24en
dc.date.sdate2012-07-24en
dc.description.abstractIn the last twenty years, studies in Afro-American slavery have given special attention to the slave community and culture. They have emphasized the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, and those few historians who studied their lives have applied the same categories of inquiry used by traditional historians with a male perspective. The topic of interracial sexual relations crystallizes this problem. This issue has been left aside in most scholarly studies and, when mentioned, addressed more often than not from a male perspective. As sexual abuse, it exemplifies the harshness of slavery. The oral slave narratives, often referred to by the same historians, are one of the few primary sources by and on slave women. Yet, historians have not used them adequately in research on slave women, primarily because of inadequate conceptual frameworks.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentvi, 104 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-07242012-040146en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07242012-040146/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/43902en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1989.L378.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 20922630en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1989.L378en
dc.subject.lcshOral historyen
dc.subject.lcshSlavery -- United States -- Personal narrativesen
dc.subject.lcshWomen slaves -- United States -- Biographyen
dc.titleBehind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narrativesen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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