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Enslaved Women and Strategies of Evasion and Resistance

Featuring the close study of one farm, the Francis farm, along the rebellion’s route and the enslaved women who lived there, this chapter illustrates how enslaved women’s labor afforded them greater mobility within the bounds of farms and plantations. The chapter explores enslaved women’s important role in building and defining geographies of evasion and resistance for their community. Their daily movements mapped a resistive geography of evasion, resistance, and survival onto the spaces that whites meant to be sites of surveillance and control. During the rebellion, enslaved women passed information, provided food and sustenance, and were present during the violent murder of whites. Some chose to act in ways that whites would later read as rebellious, while others would remain circumspect. The women’s lives and experiences provide an alternate narrative of the Southampton Rebellion.