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Running from Bondage

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

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Running from Bondage

Written by: Karen Cook Bell
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
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Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War.

Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role.

Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these "Black founding mothers" and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

©2021 Karen Cook Bell (P)2022 Tantor Americas Black & African American Revolution & Founding United States Women
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Its hard to understand how Colonialism and Christianity could consider slavery a right or god given power for one person to treat another as property, and to be endorsed by the community. While its apparent that greed and a sense of superiority could lead to such a conclusion, it shows just how little the life of those considered inferior meant to those in power. While there is a sense that its hard to judge the past with the morals of today, its clear that there was as much revulsion of the practice at that time towards slavery as there is today, so such an argument is a poor attempt to gloss over a very dark period of American and world history. Sadly we have not progressed much, as even in 2024, slavery is still practiced.
This is an excellent book that weaves a story of suffering from the scant records left behind, and shows how important freedom is for those threatened by imprisonment and the lengths they will go to claim it for themselves and their families.

Epic tale of the struggle for freedom

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