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A 7 page book report of Discovering the Women in Slavery, edited by Patricia Morton. This anthology consists of fourteen essays that explore the diversity of experience encompassed by female slave narrative and historiography. The writer offers a brief description of each of the fourteen essays. No additional sources cited.
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slave narrative and historiography. The following is a brief synopsis of each essay. Victoria E. Bynums essay "Misshapen Identity, memory folklore and the legend of Rachel Knight" concerns how history
easily becomes mixed with legend and misshapen by the prejudices of those who tell it. During the Civil War, Newton Knight led a rebellion against the Confederacy in the heart
of Mississippi. His efforts were aided and abetted by a remarkable slave woman, Rachel Knight, who is chronicled by her descendent, Ethel Knight, who authored an account of the rebellion.
The story Bynum weaves is a complicated one filled with sexual overtones due to the relationship between Newton and Rachel Knight, as well as the racist goals that underlie Ethels
account. Bynum demonstrates how accounts of slavery and slave women are intrinsically tied to the context in which they were written, as well as the prejudices and orientation of their
authors. Carolyn J. Powells "In Remembrance of Mira, reflections on the death of a slave woman" concerns the 1839 North Carolina case State v. Hoover, which is the only
case in the antebellum South where a slaveholding white man was convicted and executed for killing a slave woman. North Carolina humanized its slave code, to some degree, prior to
1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that limit was death. If a master killed a
slave, it was considered homicide. Powell places the law and the case within a cultural context that demonstrates the way that antebellum Southerners looked on the topic of honor. Statesville,
Hoovers hometown, looked on itself as a moral community. By crossing over the line of acceptable behavior, Hoover tarnished that image and sealed his own fate by destroying human property.
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