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Women and Slavery, Volume Two - The Modern Atlantic (Paperback)
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Women and Slavery, Volume Two - The Modern Atlantic (Paperback)
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The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly
in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject
across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no
single collection has focused on female slaves who-as these two
volumes reveal-probably constituted the considerable majority of
those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia
and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the
Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the
Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites-as
"scheming Jezebels," ample and devoted "mammies," or suffering
victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse-that revealed more
about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and
creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New
World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual
invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old-concealed in harems,
represented to meddling colonial rulers as "wives" and "nieces,"
taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced
fashion. Volume 2 Contributors Henrice Altink Laurence Brown Myriam
Cottias Laura F. Edwards Richard Follett Tara Inniss Barbara
Krauthamer Joseph C. Miller Bernard Moitt Kenneth Morgan Claire
Robertson Marsha Robinson Felipe Smith Mariza de Carvalho Soares
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