Dispossessed Lives : : Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive / / Marisa J. Fuentes.
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown
- Chapter 2. Rachael and Joanna: Power, Historical Figuring, and Troubling Freedom
- Chapter 3. Agatha: White Women, Slave Owners, and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender
- Chapter 4. Molly: Enslaved Women, Condemnation, and Gendered Terror
- Chapter 5. "Venus": Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence, and the Archive
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments