TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berry,Daina Ramey
AU  - Harris,Leslie M.
AU  - 
TI  - Sexuality and slavery: reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas 
T2  - Gender and slavery
SN  - 9780820354026
AV  - HT1048 .S498 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Athens, Georgia
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - America
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Enslaved women
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication"--Title page verso; 2; Introduction; Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris --; Early European views of African bodies : beauty; Stephanie M.H. Camp --; Toiling in the fields : valuing female slaves in Jamaica, 1674-1788; Trevor Burnard --; Reading the specter of racialized gender in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados; Marisa J. Fuentes --; As if she were my own : love and law in the slave society of eighteenth-century Peru; Bianca Premo --; Wombs of liberation : petitions, law, and the black woman's body in Maryland, 1780-1858; Jessica Millward --; Rethinking sexual violence and the marketplace of slavery : white women, the slave market, and enslaved people's sexualized bodies in the nineteenth-century South; Stephanie Jones-Rogers --; The sexual abuse of black men under American slavery; Thomas A. Foster --; Manhood, sex, and power in antebellum slave communities; David Doddington --; What's love got to do with it? Concubinage and enslaved women and girls in the antebellum South; Brenda E. Stevenson --; When the present is past : writing the history of sexuality and slavery; Jim Downs; 2; b
N2  - "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
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