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The Mulatta Concubine - Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (Hardcover)
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The Mulatta Concubine - Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (Hardcover)
Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
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Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine
repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial
descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and
thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their
freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine:
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic,
Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these
representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices
and production of diaspora. Beginning with a meditation on what
captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when
encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book
traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical
and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Goree Island,
New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an
archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of
color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her
daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers' narratives,
ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the
tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine
figure's manifestation as both historical subject and African
diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how
free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race
and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.
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