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The text traces key historical developments from slavery and the anti-slavery movement through women’s rights campaigns, emancipation, education, and suffrage. It foregrounds how stereotypes and institutional power distorted understanding of enslaved and free Black women, while arguing for more rigorous, women-centered historical analysis and liberation-oriented lessons for the present.","First Vintage Books Edition, February 1983 Copyright © 1981 by Angela Y. Davis  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published by Random House Inc. in 1981.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nDavis, Angela Yvonne, 1944-Women, race & class.  \nOriginally published: New York: Random House, © 1981.  \n1. Racism—United States.  \n2. United States—Race relations.  \n3. Sexism—United States.  \n4. United States—Economic conditions—1961-  \n5. Afro-American women—History.  \nI. Title  \nII. Title: Women, race, and class.  \nHT 1521.D38 1983 305.4’2 82-20266 eISBN: 978-0-307-79849-7  \nv3.1_r1  \nTo my mother, Sallye B. Davis  \nI want to thank the following people for their help:  \nKendra Alexander; Stephanie Allen; Rosalyn Baxandall;  \nHilton Braithwaite; Alva Buxenbaum; Fania Davis; Kipp Harvey; James Jackson; Phillip McGee, Dean of the School of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University; Sally McGee; Victoria Mercado; Charlene Mitchell; Toni Morrison;  \nEileen Ahearn; the Women’s Studies Program of San Francisco State University.  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgements  \n1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD  \n2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS  \n3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN  \n4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT  \n5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN  \n6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE  \n7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM  \n8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT  \n9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT  \n10. COMMUNIST WOMEN  \n11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST  \n12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS  \n13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE  \nNOTES  \nAbout the Author  \n1 The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood  \nWhen the influential scholar Ulrich B. Phillips declared in 1918 that slavery in the Old South had impressed upon African savages and their native-born descendants the glorious stamp of civilization,1 he set the stage for a long and passionate debate. As the decades passed and the debate raged on, one historian after another confidently professed to have deciphered the real meaning of the “peculiar institution.” But amidst all this scholarly activity, the special situation of the female slave remained unpenetrated. The ceaseless arguments about her “sexual promiscuity” or her “matriarchal” proclivities obscured, much more than they illuminated, the condition of Black women during slavery. Herbert Aptheker remains one of the few historians who attempted to establish a more realistic basis for the understanding of the female slave.2  \nDuring the 1970s the slavery debate reemerged with renewed vigor. Eugene Genovese published Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.3 John Blassingame’s The Slave Community4 appeared, as did Fogel and Engerman’s ill-conceived Time on the Cross5 and Herbert Gutman’s monumental Black Family in Slavery and Freedom.6 Responding to this rejuvenated debate, Stanley Elkins decided it was time to publish an expanded edition of his 1959 study Slavery.7 Conspicuously absent from this flurry of publications is a book expressly devoted to slave women Those of us who have anxiously awaited a serious study of the Black woman during slavery remain, so far, disappointed. It has been equally disappointing to discover that with the exception of the traditionally debatable questions of promiscuity versus marriage and forced versus voluntary sex with white men, scant attention has been focused on women by the authors of these new books.  \nThe most enlightening of all these recent studies is Herbert Gutman’s investigation of the Black family. In furnishing documentary evidence that the f","cbCaiopOsJImgry3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiopOsJImgry3","pdf",1368387,1,166,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## 1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD\n## 2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS\n## 3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN\n## 4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT\n## 5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN\n## 6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE\n## 7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM\n## 8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT\n## 9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT\n## 10. COMMUNIST WOMEN\n## 11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST\n## 12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS\n## 13. 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