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Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is deeply embedded in the emergence of early modern economic and political institutions. Reckoning with Slavery resituates the early modern as the space out of which race, racial hierarchies, notions of value and trade, and ideas of gender and reproduction are mutually constituted. Through a study of numeracy, trade, counting, and commerce, the lives and experiences of enslaved women in the sixteenth...
4) Silvia Dubois, now 116 yers old: a biografy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gand her fredom
Author
Publisher
C.W. Larison, publisher
Pub. Date
1883.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (124 pages) : illustration, portrait.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
"In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the current boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism, one subject has been conspicuously absent: women, both enslaved and free. This project places women's labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved women's domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor. Alexandra J. Finley shows how women often performed the foundational labor necessary to...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of...
12) Running from bondage: enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 264 pages 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Less a legal history and more an examination of gender, race, crime, and punishment in the antebellum era, Nunley's book measures the limits and possibilities of justice for enslaved women accused of attempting to or succeeding in committing grave crimes against their owners. Immersing herself in hundreds of court cases, executive orders, transportation records of the state treasury, and newspapers from a single state - Virginia - Tamika Nunley has...
Author
Publisher
Tree of Meaning Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 220 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The gripping story of Sarah, daughter Juliet, and Juliet's children, each born enslaved in rural Virginia by the author's ancestors. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of one family divided into two by race and the recovery of lost identity.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Though their stories appear only briefly in historical records, Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway, inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color, in the midst of a white urban household...
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