WRL’s Emerging Scholars: Motherhood & Self-Emancipation among Enslaved & Servant Women in Colonial Pennsylvania
Stryker Center at the Williamsburg Regional Library 412 N. Boundary Street, Williamsburg, VA, United StatesIn the eighteenth century, enslaved and servant women fled from coercive labor arrangements for a variety of reasons: to circumvent laws that punished women for illegitimate children, to be near...
