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

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

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Main Author: Fuentes, Marisa J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2016]
Series:Early American studies
Subjects:
Geschichte 1700-1800
Geschichte
Sklaverei
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History > Sources
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History
Women slaves > Caribbean Area > Biography
Sklavin
Bridgetown > Barbados
Biografie
Quelle
Online Access:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-859
DE-860
DE-188
DE-473
DE-739
DE-858
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Summary:In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women.Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death. By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (217 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780812293005
DOI:10.9783/9780812293005

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