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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    gbv_1691485160
    Format: 316 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 24 cm
    ISBN: 9780812252385
    Series Statement: Early American studies
    Content: "The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship--husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy--corporeal, carnal, quotidian--tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World"
    Content: "This book follows African women and women of African descent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they move from Africa to the Caribbean to Louisiana. The book looks at how these women used subtle ways to achieve freedom: through marriage, baptism (thereby gaining the support of the church), property ownership, and writing wills to leave their assets to their descendants. These women were feminists ahead of their time"--
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Johnson, Jessica Marie Wicked flesh Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 ISBN 9780812297249
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Johnson, Jessica Marie Wicked flesh Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 ISBN 9780812297249
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    Keywords: Atlantischer Raum ; Schwarze Frau ; Sklavin ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1685-1810
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