Sexuality and slavery : reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas /
Sexuality and slavery : reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas /
edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris.
- Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations
- Gender and slavery .
"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Early European views of African bodies : beauty / Toiling in the fields : valuing female slaves in Jamaica, 1674-1788 / Reading the specter of racialized gender in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados / As if she were my own : love and law in the slave society of eighteenth-century Peru / Wombs of liberation : petitions, law, and the black woman's body in Maryland, 1780-1858 / Rethinking sexual violence and the marketplace of slavery : white women, the slave market, and enslaved people's sexualized bodies in the nineteenth-century South / The sexual abuse of black men under American slavery / Manhood, sex, and power in antebellum slave communities / What's love got to do with it? Concubinage and enslaved women and girls in the antebellum South / When the present is past : writing the history of sexuality and slavery / Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris -- Stephanie M.H. Camp -- Trevor Burnard -- Marisa J. Fuentes -- Bianca Premo -- Jessica Millward -- Stephanie Jones-Rogers -- Thomas A. Foster -- David Doddington -- Brenda E. Stevenson -- Jim Downs.
"Editors Harris and Berry first conceived of this discussion -- In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and repression and as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.
9780820354026
Enslaved persons--Social conditions.--America
Enslaved women--Social conditions.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Enslaved persons--Sexual behavior--History.
Electronic Books.
HT1048 / .S498 2018
"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Early European views of African bodies : beauty / Toiling in the fields : valuing female slaves in Jamaica, 1674-1788 / Reading the specter of racialized gender in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados / As if she were my own : love and law in the slave society of eighteenth-century Peru / Wombs of liberation : petitions, law, and the black woman's body in Maryland, 1780-1858 / Rethinking sexual violence and the marketplace of slavery : white women, the slave market, and enslaved people's sexualized bodies in the nineteenth-century South / The sexual abuse of black men under American slavery / Manhood, sex, and power in antebellum slave communities / What's love got to do with it? Concubinage and enslaved women and girls in the antebellum South / When the present is past : writing the history of sexuality and slavery / Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris -- Stephanie M.H. Camp -- Trevor Burnard -- Marisa J. Fuentes -- Bianca Premo -- Jessica Millward -- Stephanie Jones-Rogers -- Thomas A. Foster -- David Doddington -- Brenda E. Stevenson -- Jim Downs.
"Editors Harris and Berry first conceived of this discussion -- In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and repression and as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.
9780820354026
Enslaved persons--Social conditions.--America
Enslaved women--Social conditions.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Enslaved persons--Sexual behavior--History.
Electronic Books.
HT1048 / .S498 2018