To Secure her Freedom
“Dorcas ye blackmore,” Race, Redemption, and the Dorchester First Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16307678 |
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| Authors | Deborah Colleen McNally (Deborah McNally received her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle where she is a lecturer in history. She is currently working on a book which examines the relationship between puritan New England's religious culture and attitudes about gender, race, identity, and freedom during the seventeenth century., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533-555 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00563 |
| OpenAlex | W2560335518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay considers the intersection of race and religion in seventeenth-century puritan New England by reconstructing the life of a young enslaved African woman identified in church records as “Dorcas ye blackmore” and by examining the efforts of the brethren of the Dorchester First Church to secure her legal freedom
Genealogy · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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