Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. ... The first comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. ... In Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told, he describes the formation of song circles that would take place during these gatherings, in which women would di...

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