Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in antebellum New Orleans /

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"In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black wom...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Owens, Emily A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Enslaved women > Abuse of > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Sexual behavior > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > Abuse of > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
African American women > Sexual behavior > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Sexual abuse victims > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Rape > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Sex workers > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Louisiana > New Orleans.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: On Lies (Or, After Archival Failure)
  • Introduction: Eliza's Last Child
  • Ordinary Violence
  • Any White Woman or Girl
  • Contracts
  • Of Mistresses and Concubines: Ann Maria Barclay's Critique of Marriage
  • Seeing New Orleans Again
  • Afterword: Believe Women.

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