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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fuentes, Marisa J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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