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

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Though their stories appear only briefly in historical records, Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women. Fuentes t...

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Main Author: Fuentes, Marisa J., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Early American studies
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505 0 |a 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. 
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