Liberating the Family?: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, S. Africa, 1823-1853 Alumni Books The book pays particular attention

The book pays particular attention to the ways in which freedwomen struggled in different social and economic settings with ascriptions of what it meant to be a black woman

his correspondence

and a bibliography of critical essays

'who dissolve into breath from moon to mouth

where he sought to correct a wide range of problems

Liberating the Family?: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, S. Africa, 1823-1853 Alumni Books The book pays particular attentionDenison University presents "Liberating the Family?: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, S. Africa, 1823 1853" by Pamela Scully: Liberating the Family? is a pioneering attempt to unite recent understanding of race and gender as historical and cultural constructs with extensive archival research. In so doing, Scully has produced a sensitive and intelligent study which bridges social and intellectual history and suggests new