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Subject(s)

• African American women—Louisiana—New Orleans—History—18th century [Browse]
• African American women—Louisiana—New Orleans—Social conditions—18th century [Browse]
• Women, Black—Atlantic Ocean Region—History—18th century [Browse]
• Women, Black—Atlantic Ocean Region—Social conditions—18th century [Browse]
• Slave trade—Social aspects—Atlantic Ocean Region—History—18th century [Browse]
• African diaspora—History—18th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Kinship—History—18th century [Browse]
• Atlantic Ocean Region—Race relations—History—18th century [Browse]

Series

Early American studies. [More in this series]

Summary note

Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Their practices laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction. The Women in the Water
• Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia
• Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets’ Overlapping Diasporas
• Chapter 3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage
• Chapter 4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans
• Chapter 5. Black Femme: Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom
• Chapter 6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans
• Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century
• Archives and Databases
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments

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ISBN

• 0-8122-9724-5
• 9780812297249 ((electronic bk.))
• 0812297245 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1181842288

Doi

• 10.9783/9780812297249

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