Domesticating Racial Capitalism: Freedwomen in U.S. Industrial Sewing Schools, 1862–1872—An Opening Foray

IF 0.5 3区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

International Labor and Working-Class History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1017/S0147547922000096

Shennette Garrett-Scott

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By early 1863, Harriet Jacobs had long mastered reading people. Even before she could extend a hand to the stone-faced Julia Wilbur, she caught a flash of resentment in Wilbur's eyes. Jacobs decided against a handshake. “Miss Wilbur, I am Harriet Jacobs. Do you remember me?” she asked. Wilbur did remember Jacobs. In fact, Wilbur had not taken her eyes off of the immaculately but modestly dressed African American woman from the moment Jacobs stepped into the converted barracks that now served as a school for freedwomen and girls. Wilbur first met Jacobs in 1849 in Rochester, New York, when Wilbur was a teacher and the secretary of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. Then, Jacobs was a self-emancipated, former slave operating an antislavery reading room in the city. Yet, on this unseasonably warm evening of January 14, 1863, in a converted barracks in the District of Columbia, the wheels of fortune had indeed turned. Wilbur made no effort to hide her anger as Jacobs explained that the New York Friends had decided to make Jacobs head matron of the freedwomen's school—the school Wilbur had opened and run almost single-handedly for three months.

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驯化种族资本主义:1862 - 1872年美国工业缝纫学校的自由妇女——一次开放的尝试

到1863年初，哈丽特·雅各布斯早已掌握了读人的技巧。她还没来得及伸手去摸那面无表情的茱莉亚·威尔伯，就发现威尔伯的眼睛里闪过一丝怨恨。雅各布斯决定不握手。“威尔伯小姐，我是哈丽特·雅各布斯。你还记得我吗?她问。威尔伯确实记得雅各布斯。事实上，从雅各布斯走进这个由兵营改建而成的自由妇女和女孩学校的那一刻起，威尔伯就一直盯着这个衣装得体的非裔美国妇女。1849年，威尔伯在纽约州罗切斯特市第一次见到雅各布斯，当时威尔伯是一名教师，也是罗切斯特妇女反奴隶制协会的秘书。当时，雅各布斯是一名自我解放的前奴隶，在该市经营一家反奴隶制阅览室。然而，在1863年1月14日这个异常温暖的夜晚，在哥伦比亚特区一个经过改造的兵营里，命运的车轮确实转动了。当雅各布斯解释说纽约之友决定让雅各布斯担任自由妇女学校的校长时，威尔伯毫不掩饰自己的愤怒。这所学校是威尔伯一手开办并经营了三个月的。

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