Voices and Masks: The Experience of Nineteenth Century Mill Girls and Enslaved Women from Primary Sources

Voices and Masks is an essential teaching guide showing how to use primary sources as research, bringing the past alive. The documents used focus on experiences of New England's 19th century mill girls and enslaved black women of the south. Learn how to interpret the archives to reveal stories of enslavement and entrapment and how they carved out their identities in hidden and private ways.