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Women and Slavery, Volume Two - The Modern Atlantic (Hardcover)
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Women and Slavery, Volume Two - The Modern Atlantic (Hardcover)
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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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