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zoeliz's review
4.0
read for school i took so many notes about to write such a good paper guys don’t know how to rate though it was a good book i guess
paperwitches's review
4.0
This book provides an amazing insight into the lives and escapes of women in slavery. It’s emotional, but also factual and informative. It handles the dark subject matter well, from an analytical point of view without getting emotionally involved or opinionated on any content within the book. It helps imagine just how people back then felt as if slaves were property and nothing else.
I’m very glad to see a book on slavery’s accounts and experiences! These stories are important, and this novel helps bring attention to the personal accounts of women who were slaves. Each chapter focuses on different story, and are well written and compelling. The technical stuff can go on for a while, but it doesn’t much distract from the interesting stories.
I want to sincerely thank Netgalley, and the publisher for giving me the chance to review this ARC!
I’m very glad to see a book on slavery’s accounts and experiences! These stories are important, and this novel helps bring attention to the personal accounts of women who were slaves. Each chapter focuses on different story, and are well written and compelling. The technical stuff can go on for a while, but it doesn’t much distract from the interesting stories.
I want to sincerely thank Netgalley, and the publisher for giving me the chance to review this ARC!
grace_ezri's review
informative
inspiring
sad
I am not going to officially rate this book because it seems wrong to judge other's lives and histories that way. I am very glad I read however. I truly learned a lot and I believe it is very important to educate yourself. My history education in school like many was lacking with gym teachers just throwing on war documentaries and taking a nap. So I felt it was my responsibility to educate myself. I also appreciate the focus on women who are often overlooked in discussions around slavery. This book was easy to read not to academic but still filled with enough facts and information to teach you. Highly recommend this book it was very well done.
bahareads's review
5.0
Running from Bondage pushes enslaved women's to desire for freedom for themselves and their children compelling them to run away during the American Revolutionary War. The war was a time where a lack of oversight allowed more opportunities for marronage. Bell wants to challenge the lack of Black women's representation in Revolutionary America and show "the ways in which Black women enter history." Using fugitive narratives shows the integral role in the 18th abolitionist movement. Bell builds on the history of how the American Revolution impacted freedom and slavery by highlighting the experiences of enslaved and fugitive women.
Running away was an expression of agency and a strategic act. Flight was a method of fighting against the oppressive system. Two themes throughout Running from Bondage are the creation of a rival geography through fugitivity and using fugitivity as an act of resistance. She's not reinventing the wheel but she is highlighting underrepresented voices. Running from Bondage seeks to answer several questions, and she answers all the questions she poses.
The different chapters examine the various questions Bell poses. There is an analysis of the status and position of enslaved women; an examination of the pre-Revolutionary period; the ideas of the American Revolution while placing fugitive enslaved women on the front; obstacles enslaved women faced in escaping bondage; and the gendered dimensions of maroon communities in America and the Atlantic world. Enslaved rebellions and rumours of rebellions illuminate the networks women used to secure their freedom. Runaway slave ads descriptions allow enslaved people's bodies to be as text to understand the tangible effects of slavery. Ads recognize runaways' historical visibility. Freedom for enslaved people was temporally and spatially changing, dependent on the interplay of a variety of processes.
"Enslaved women who escaped to join maroon communities unabashedly claimed the liberty denied to them and fundamentally transformed their lived experiences."
Running away was an expression of agency and a strategic act. Flight was a method of fighting against the oppressive system. Two themes throughout Running from Bondage are the creation of a rival geography through fugitivity and using fugitivity as an act of resistance. She's not reinventing the wheel but she is highlighting underrepresented voices. Running from Bondage seeks to answer several questions, and she answers all the questions she poses.
The different chapters examine the various questions Bell poses. There is an analysis of the status and position of enslaved women; an examination of the pre-Revolutionary period; the ideas of the American Revolution while placing fugitive enslaved women on the front; obstacles enslaved women faced in escaping bondage; and the gendered dimensions of maroon communities in America and the Atlantic world. Enslaved rebellions and rumours of rebellions illuminate the networks women used to secure their freedom. Runaway slave ads descriptions allow enslaved people's bodies to be as text to understand the tangible effects of slavery. Ads recognize runaways' historical visibility. Freedom for enslaved people was temporally and spatially changing, dependent on the interplay of a variety of processes.
"Enslaved women who escaped to join maroon communities unabashedly claimed the liberty denied to them and fundamentally transformed their lived experiences."
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