9780812252385-0812252381-Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

ISBN-13: 9780812252385
ISBN-10: 0812252381
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Jessica Marie Johnson
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780812252385
ISBN-10: 0812252381
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Jessica Marie Johnson
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover 328 pages

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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies) (ISBN-13: 9780812252385 and ISBN-10: 0812252381), written by authors Jessica Marie Johnson, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African Americans (United States History, Revolution & Founding, State & Local, Women in History, World History, Women's Studies, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African Americans books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.59.

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The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures.

The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship--husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy--corporeal, carnal, quotidian--tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world.

Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.

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