Further Reading
- Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Deborah Gray White.
- Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America, Martha Saxton.
- Born in Bondage, Marie Jenkins.
- Life in Black and White, Brenda Stevenson.
- Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England, Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck.
- Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80, Marli F. Weiner.
- Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry, Philip D. Morgan.
- Working Toward Freedom, Larry E. Hudson, Jr.
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“There are women in middle life, whose days are crowded with practical duties, physical strain, and moral responsibility ... they fail to see that some use of the mind, in solid reading or in study, would refresh them by its contrast with carking cares, and would prepare interest and pleasure for their later years. Such women often sink into depression, as their cares fall away from them, and many even become insane. They are mentally starved to death.”
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“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)