Black Women, Eldership, and Communities of Care in the Nineteenth-Century North

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY
Frederick C. Knight
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abstract:This essay compares the spiritual and material terms of aging among black women in the post-emancipation North. It contrasts the public representations of African American women elders and the more prosaic, material work that black women and broader northern free black communities performed in coping with the challenges of aging. Early American biographies of black women elders characterized them as pious exemplars of Christian virtue. They also showed how they used collective practices to cope with aging. Other sources reveal this communal ethos. The records of churches, mutual aid societies, black women authors, and others show how free black communities brought together religious and material resources to support African American women in the aging process. Through this "community of care," black Northerners provided material and spiritual support to an aging population of women.
19世纪北方的黑人妇女、老年人和护理社区
本文比较了解放后北方黑人妇女在精神和物质方面的老龄化状况。它对比了非裔美国妇女老年人的公共形象和黑人妇女以及更广泛的北方自由黑人社区在应对老龄化挑战方面所做的更平淡,更物质的工作。早期美国黑人女性长老的传记将她们描述为基督教美德的虔诚典范。他们还展示了他们如何通过集体实践来应对衰老。其他资料也揭示了这种集体精神。教会、互助会、黑人女性作家和其他人的记录显示,自由的黑人社区如何汇集宗教和物质资源,在老龄化过程中支持非裔美国妇女。通过这个“关爱社区”,北方黑人为老年妇女提供了物质和精神上的支持。
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