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  • 3 - “I Had Time for Myself”

  • from Part I - Emancipation and Black Women’s Labor
  • Edited by Karen Cook Bell, Bowie State University
  • Book:
    Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction
    Published online:
    14 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 46-60

  • Summary

    Felicia Jamison analyzes Black women in the Georgia Low Country during the Civil War who used the personal time afforded them after laboring on rice plantations to acquire property and pass on goods to their children. Using the testimonies of women in the records of the Southern Claims Commission, Jamison demonstrates how Black women secured property before the war, lost their valuable property as Union soldiers traversed the region and commandeered their goods, and petitioned the Commission for restitution to provide for themselves and their families after the war. Using the “politics of acquisition” as a framework, Jamison argues that women in Liberty County, Georgia, used property to enhance their lives and secure their freedom. She demonstrates that the loss of personal goods such as clothing, livestock, and bushels of agricultural products severely hampered Black women and their families transition into freedom.