Wicked Flesh : : Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World / / Jessica Marie Johnson.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Women in the Water
- Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia
- Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets’ Overlapping Diasporas
- Chapter 3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage
- Chapter 4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans
- Chapter 5. Black Femme: Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom
- Chapter 6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans
- Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century
- Archives and Databases
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments