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...both according to time and place and according to individual. This experience is particularly interesting when we contrast the lives of Charlotte L. Forten, a black woman of relative privilege that taught at an island off the mainland of South Carolina during the latter nineteenth century, and that of the slave women of South Carolina that toiled their lives away in rice plantations. Forten kept journals that detailed her life experiences. These journals have been published in a variety of formats, one of which is that edited by Ray Allan Billington and titled "The Journal of Charlotte Forten: a Free Negro in the Slave Era". They serve a particularly ready contrast to the accounts we have of the slave experience during this same time. For the most part, the life experiences of the slave women in the Carolinas, however, must be ascertained from secondary sources. One of these sources is Leslie A. Schwalm's "A Hard Fight for We: Women's...