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Susie King Taylor : nurse, teacher & freedom fighter.

Authors : Dunbar, Erica Armstrong, author; Buford, Candace, author; ...

Subjects: African American nurses; African American teachers; Historical fictionUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical careTaylor, Susie King, 1848-1912

Availability: 4 Holdings

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Say Anarcha : a young woman, a devious surgeon, and the harrowing birth of modern women's health.

Authors : Hallman, J. C., author

Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Gynecologists -- United States -- Biography; Fistula, Vesicovaginal -- TreatmentSims, J. Marion 1813-1883; Jackson, Anarcha, approximately 1821-1869

Availability: 7 Holdings

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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake.

Authors : Miles, Tiya, 1970-, author

Subjects: Enslaved women -- South Carolina -- Biography; Mothers and daughters; Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryAshley (Enslaved person in South Carolina); Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family

Availability: 14 Holdings

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Running from bondage : enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America.

Authors : Bell, Karen Cook, author

Subjects: Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th centuryUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- African Americans; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence

Availability: 1 Holdings

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A black women's history of the United States.

Authors : Berry, Daina Ramey; Gross, Kali N., 1972-

Subjects: African American women -- HistoryUnited States -- History

Availability: 7 Holdings

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No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity.

Authors : Haley, Sarah

Subjects: Women prisoners -- Social conditions; African American prisoners -- Social conditions; Women prisoners -- History

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Crossing the line : women's interracial activism in South Carolina during and after World War II.

Authors : Jones-Branch, Cherisse

Subjects: Women civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century; African American women civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th centurySouth Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Availability: 1 Holdings

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African American life in the Georgia lowcountry : the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee.

Authors : Morgan, Philip D., 1949-; Georgia Humanities Council.

Subjects: African Americans -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions; African Americans -- ReligionAtlantic Coast (Ga.) -- History; Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Social conditions; Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Religious life and customs

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Freedom's teacher : the life of Septima Clark.

Authors : Charron, Katherine Mellen; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for the Study of the American South.

Subjects: African American women political activists -- Southern States -- Biography; African American civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- BiographySouthern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryClark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987

Availability: 8 Holdings

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"'Left to our fate' : South Carolina women during the Civil War and Reconstruction"

Authors : Burrows, Sara Eye

Subjects: Reconstruction -- South Carolina; Women -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Women, White -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th centurySouth Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women; South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century

Availability: 1 Holdings

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