Through courageous advocacy, intellectualism, cultural leadership, and resilient community-building, these women ...
From Southern Ladies to She-Rebels ... this trend was most marked for young women in Union-occupied homes, plantations, and towns—that is, for girls like Emma and Alice Green.
The standard image of Southern slavery is ... were often powerless to protect the women they loved. The drivers, overseers, and masters were responsible for plantation discipline.
Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.