Dispossessed lives : enslaved women, violence, and the archive /

Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuentes, Marisa J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
1700-1799
Enslaved women > Barbados > Bridgetown > Social conditions > 18th century.
Women > Barbados > Bridgetown > Social conditions > 18th century.
Slavery > Barbados > Bridgetown > History > 18th century.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History > Sources.
Enslaved women > Caribbean Area > Biography.
Femmes esclaves > Barbade > Bridgetown > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Femmes > Barbade > Bridgetown > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Femmes esclaves > Caraïbes (Région) > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Ethnic relations.
Slavery.
Enslaved women.
Enslaved women > Social conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Bridgetown (Barbados) > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century.
Barbados > Bridgetown.
Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Jane : fugitivity, space, and structures of control in Bridgetown
  • Rachael and Joanna : power, historical figuring, and troubling freedom
  • Agatha : white women, slave owners, and the dialectic of racialized gender
  • Molly : enslaved women, condemnation, and gendered terror
  • "Venus" : abolition discourse, gendered violence, and the archive
  • Epilogue.

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