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Consent in the Presence of Force : Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans /

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Owens, Emily A. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.