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Thread. Im reading about post-Civil War Black life. Listen, white women were SEETHING about Black freewomen dressing themselves well LOL
White mistresses were so upset they wrote in their diaries about how bothered they were former slaves were stuntin on their asses
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Freewomen leveraged dress as a way to assert their individuality - masters + mistresses were BOTHERED. How dare we be civil AND stylish?
“In parading as ladies, Black women struck a deliberately targeted blow at racism + the pedestal of southern white womanhood.” Thavolia Glymph
“In parading as ladies, Black women struck a deliberately targeted blow at racism + the pedestal of southern white womanhood.” Thavolia Glymph
A diary entry of a former slave mistress. Mrs. Gertrude Thomas was BIG MAD lol
“Numbers of negro women some of them quite Black…promenading up the streets with black lace veil shading them from the embrowning rays of a sun under whose influence they had worked all their life.”
“Numbers of negro women some of them quite Black…promenading up the streets with black lace veil shading them from the embrowning rays of a sun under whose influence they had worked all their life.”
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“The main portion of the women do little else than walk the streets, dressed in all kinds of gaudy attire.”
“The main portion of the women do little else than walk the streets, dressed in all kinds of gaudy attire.”
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Union soldiers would sometimes escort Freewoman back to the plantation to get their children + belongings
Often freewomen would take some of their former mistresses gowns, jewelry, perfumes etc as an act of reclamation — So the Karens calling their own clothes gawdy?! Hatinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">
Often freewomen would take some of their former mistresses gowns, jewelry, perfumes etc as an act of reclamation — So the Karens calling their own clothes gawdy?! Hating
There’s a lot of Tigon Law talk in the replies. I get it but this ain’t that. lol
Two different subjects. Two different time periods. We’re talking about what Black women did of their own volition once free — Not dress codes.
Two different subjects. Two different time periods. We’re talking about what Black women did of their own volition once free — Not dress codes.
