Gould Meacham, Virginia. “If I can't have my rights, I can have my pleasures, and if they won't give me wages, I can take them: Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans," Discovering Emancipating Perspective the Women on the American Past in Slavery, Patricia Morton, (Ed), University of Georgia Press: Athens, GA, 1996, 179-201.
Gould argues the urban experience of urban slave women have been overlooked by historians who are only interested in the narratives of the rural southern slaves. She states, “they have ignored the influence that differing conditions of slavery had on the day-to-day lives of women. Instead, they assumed that the identities of plantation slave women were applicable to other slave women in the South” (179). Gould
Gould argues the urban experience of urban slave women have been overlooked by historians who are only interested in the narratives of the rural southern slaves. She states, “they have ignored the influence that differing conditions of slavery had on the day-to-day lives of women. Instead, they assumed that the identities of plantation slave women were applicable to other slave women in the South” (179). Gould