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Cambridge Studies on Black Women in US History (CSBW) focuses on African-descended women from colonial settlement to the twenty-first century. The series publishes books that analyze Black women s experiences with a focus on the lives, labors, war-time experiences, and legal battles of Black women in the United States and their self-making practices, which allowed them to navigate slavery, freedom, Jim Crow segregation, and the turmoil of the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights era. It expands the range of sources and voices with regard to the history of Black women and examines how Black women overcame the gendered conventions of their environment.

  • General Editors: Karen Cook Bell, Bowie State University, Kelly Jones, Arkansas Tech University, Nikki Taylor, Howard University, Washington DC, Hettie V. Williams, Monmouth University, New Jersey

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‘I Felt All This’
  • Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
  • Beth R. Wilson
  • Published online:
    29 May 2026
    Print publication:
    25 June 2026
  • Drawing on methods from the history of emotions to study enslaved people's lives, Beth R. Wilson exposes the social, cultural and political role that emotion played in the US South. Exploring both individual and collective emotions, Wilson shows how enslaved people resisted white people's attempts to restrict their feelings and expressions by developing their own emotional ideals and expectations. Moving through case studies that examine a range of underexplored forms of testimony, the book introduces readers to slave narratives, letters, written interviews and recorded testimony to show that emotion was central to how enslaved people resisted, survived and remembered the system of slavery. Enslaved people's descriptions of their individual experiences of love, pain, grief and joy are woven throughout this study, which provides a framework that historians can use to paint a nuanced, detailed and empathetic picture of the complex emotional impact of slavery.