“Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America” by Karen Cook Bell tells the stories of enslaved women who escaped from and resisted slavery during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author: Karen Cook Bell
Karen Cook Bell is the author of Running From Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America (Cambridge University Press; July 1, 2021). She is associate professor of history at Bowie State University and specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history.