Sexuality and Slavery
Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
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Illustrations: 5 b&w images
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Paperback
Pub Date: 10/01/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5404-0
List Price: $34.95
Hardcover
Pub Date: 10/01/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5403-3
List Price: $99.95
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Subsidies and Partnerships
Published with the generous support of Sarah Mills Hodge FundSexuality and Slavery
Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
An examination of the many facets of sexuality within slave communities
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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.
Sexuality and Slavery . . . is a provocative book that contains groundbreaking research. Examining new paradigms for understanding sexuality and intimate relationships in the colonial Americas, the authors challenge existing assumptions and confront the shortcomings of typical approaches used in historical scholarship.
—Katie Knowles, Black Perspectives
These essays complicate simple binaries about agency, gender, and victimization, producing a fuller tapestry of the experiences of enslaved people.
—E.R. Crowther, Choice Connect
Winner
Best Black History Book of the Year, Black Perspectives