Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown
Chapter 2. Rachael and Joanna: Power, Historical Figuring, and Troubling Freedom
Chapter 3. Agatha: White Women Slaveowners and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender
Chapter 4. Molly: Enslaved Women, Condemnation, and Gendered Terror
Chapter 5. "Venus": Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence, and the Archive
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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Dispossessed Lives von Marisa J. Fuentes - mit der ISBN: 9780812293005
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; 18th century; abolition; african american black womens gender history studies; barbados; biography; british caribbean colonies; colonial; historiography; race racial; sex work; slave trade; slaveowner; urban slavery, Online-Buchhandlung
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