Mary S. Page, Larry Metzger
Description
Using primary sources, Voices & Masks focuses on the experience of New England's nineteenth century mill girls and enslaved black women of the antebel
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lum South. The documents and writings of the mill girls reveal how they transformed themselves from being a source of cheap labor for the textile industry to independent women capable of assuming a prominent role in society. Denied writing, enslaved women are shown to have carved out their identities in more hidden or private ways.
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