In More than Chains and Toil, Joan Martin explores the experiences of enslaved women and the realities of their social world to uncover the interrelationships among moral agency, work, and human meaning. She then reflects ethically on the implications such a distinct perspective on labor might have for women in contemporary African American communities and for broader discussions about the meaning of work in American society.
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Joan M. Martin is William W. Rankin Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Recommended for students of Black history and Christianity.,
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Joan Martin's More Than Chains And Toil provides a study of Christian work ethic and enslaved black women, analyzing work in the experience of black women and analyzing the meanings women attributed to their work. A fine guide examines notions of work, 'calling', and social conditions and issues of the times.
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More Than Chains and Toil - A Multifaceted Book,
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The Reverend Dr. Joan M. Martin has produced a fantastic volume on the roles,lives, and philosophies of life of the Africa-American slave woman during the period of slavery in the United States and later. Dr. Martin, a Presbyterian Minister, describes and dissects how the Christian Religion of the slaveowner was used (and abused) by him to control his slaves, but also demonstrates how the slave women (and men) found in the same Christianity the key to their survival. The book's many Notes enables the interested reader to follow paths suggested by the text. Dr. Martin also supplies a very fine Bibliography. This book is not only of great interest to the individual reader, but should be considered as a text by Anthropology, Sociology, and Black Studies Dpartments as well.
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At first glance, to juxtapose the reality of enslaved women's work with a notion of a work ethic, particularly one grounded in religious and community values, seems like a contradiction and a futile exercise in testing an illogical hypothesis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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At first glance, to juxtapose the reality of enslaved women's work with a notion of a work ethic, particularly one grounded in religious and community values, seems like a contradiction and a futile exercise in testing an illogical hypothesis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enslaved blackwomen, womanish moral authority, slave historiography, slave work ethic, womanist framework, enslaved women, womanist reading, enslaved community, southern ethic, slave ideology, unwearied industry, enslaved woman, exploitative work, womanist perspective, embodied labor, womanist theologians, moral agency, slave narratives, public transcript, slave religion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, New World, Harriet Jacobs, Aunt Nancy, Sojourner Truth, New England, Elizabeth Kleckley, North America, Deborah Gray White, Louisa Picquet, South Carolina, Civil War, New York, Aunt Betty, Bethany Veney New!
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- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) by Harriet Jacobs on 5 pages
- Slave Narratives (Library of America) by William L. Andrews on 5 pages
- Sisters in the Wilderness by Delores Williams on 4 pages
- The American Slave--Arkansas Narratives: Part 3 & 4, Vol. 9 by Rawick on 4 pages
- Stony the Road We Trod by Cain Hope Felder in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Navigating New Terrain: Work and Women's Spiritual Lives by Claire E. Wolfteich in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers by Lucretia Yaghjian on page 218, and Back Matter
- Introducing Womanist Theology by Stephanie Y. Mitchem in Back Matter
- Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics (Columbia Series in Reformed Theology) by Amy Plantinga Pauw in Back Matter
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