Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in Antebellum New Orleans / Emily A. Owens.

Author
Owens, Emily A. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Description
xvi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface: On Lies (Or, After Archival Failure)
    • Introduction: Eliza's Last Child
    • Ordinary Violence
    • Any White Woman or Girl
    • Contracts
    • Of Mistresses and Concubines: Ann Maria Barclay's Critique of Marriage
    • Seeing New Orleans Again
    • Afterword: Believe Women.
    ISBN
    • 9781469670515 (hardcover)
    • 1469670518 (hardcover)
    • 9781469672137 (paperback)
    • 1469672138 (paperback)
    LCCN
    2022033431
    OCLC
    1337564231
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