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Rethinking Rufus : sexual violations of enslaved men / Thomas A. Foster.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820355207
Other title:
  • Sexual violations of enslaved men
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E443 .R484 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Enslaved Black Men's Bodies -- ch. 2 "No Man Can Be Prevented from Visiting His Wife" -- Manly Autonomy and Intimacy -- ch. 3 "Just Like Raising Stock and Mating It" -- Coerced Reproduction -- ch. 4 "Frequently Heard Her Threaten to Sell Him" -- Relations between White Women and Enslaved Black Men -- ch. 5 "Till I Had Mastered Every Part" -- Valets, Vulnerability, and Same- Gender Relations under Slavery.
Subject: "This book uses a wide range of sources on slavery--early American newspapers, court records, slave owners' journals, abolitionist literature, and the testimony of former slaves collected in autobiographies and in interviews--to argue that enslaved black men were sexually assaulted by both white men and white women. Scholarship has focused on women's exploitation and abuse and has noted that many of our sources similarly emphasize the abuse of women, silencing the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources finds that sexual assault of enslaved men took a wide variety of forms, including outright physical penetrative assault, forced reproduction, sexual coercion and manipulation, and psychic abuse."--Provided by publisher
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"This book uses a wide range of sources on slavery--early American newspapers, court records, slave owners' journals, abolitionist literature, and the testimony of former slaves collected in autobiographies and in interviews--to argue that enslaved black men were sexually assaulted by both white men and white women. Scholarship has focused on women's exploitation and abuse and has noted that many of our sources similarly emphasize the abuse of women, silencing the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources finds that sexual assault of enslaved men took a wide variety of forms, including outright physical penetrative assault, forced reproduction, sexual coercion and manipulation, and psychic abuse."--Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: chapter 1 "Remarkably Muscular and Well Made" or "Covered with Ulcers" -- Enslaved Black Men's Bodies -- ch. 2 "No Man Can Be Prevented from Visiting His Wife" -- Manly Autonomy and Intimacy -- ch. 3 "Just Like Raising Stock and Mating It" -- Coerced Reproduction -- ch. 4 "Frequently Heard Her Threaten to Sell Him" -- Relations between White Women and Enslaved Black Men -- ch. 5 "Till I Had Mastered Every Part" -- Valets, Vulnerability, and Same- Gender Relations under Slavery.

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