“wood betty”

A look at the hidden role color plays in every aspect of our lives. - Explores the use of color in ancient civilizations and its recent applications in modern medicine and psychology. - Shows how color can be used to improve work, increase plant growth, and enhance personal magnetism. - Explains how... More

Though the English did not begin their colonization of the New World with the intention of enslaving anyone, by the end of the seventeenth century chattel slavery existed in each of England's American colonies. Why? And why did the English enslave West Africans rather than native Americans or Europe... More

In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of ei... More

Georgia was the only British colony in America in which a sustained effort was made to prohibit the introduction and use of black slaves at a time when the institution of slavery was well established in the other southern colonies. In the first half of Slavery in Colonial Georgia, Betty Wood examine... More

The Truth Seeker will find that the total person - body, mind, and spirit must be inspired and developed. This poetry will help to will help in understanding the many levels of Virtues and imperfections encountered in every day living. The imperfections are not "deadly sins" but merely mistakes whic... More

The Truth Seeker will find that the total person - body, mind, and spirit must be inspired and developed. This poetry will help to will help in understanding the many levels of Virtues and imperfections encountered in every day living. The imperfections are not "deadly sins" but merely mistakes whic... More

Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional social and economic forces that affected the growth of slavery in early America. In addition, Wood provides a window into the reality of slavery, presenting a true picture of da... More

This definitive work thoroughly explores, for the first time, the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Lowcountry. Betty Wood analyzes the experience... More

This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. The contributors discuss what slavery has to teach us about patterns of adjustment and change, black identity and the extent to... More