Sexual Violence And American Slavery
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Sexual Violence And American Slavery
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Author : Shannon Eaves
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2024-04-09
Sexual Violence And American Slavery written by Shannon Eaves and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-09 with History categories.
It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of sexualized violence meant for themselves and others. Eaves mines a wealth of primary sources including autobiographies, diaries, court records, and more to show that rape and other forms of sexual exploitation entangled slaves and slave owners in battles over power to protect oneself and one's community, power to avenge hurt and humiliation, and power to punish and eliminate future threats. By placing sexual violence at the center of the systems of power and culture, Eaves shows how the South's rape culture was revealed in enslaved people's and their enslavers' interactions with one another and with members of their respective communities.
When Rape Was Legal
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Author : Rachel A. Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
When Rape Was Legal written by Rachel A. Feinstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Social Science categories.
When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that enabled this violence are all explored and scrutinized. Enlightening analysis found that rape was not merely a result of sexual desire and opportunity, or simply a form of punishment and racial domination, but instead encompassed all of these dimensions as part of the identity of white masculinity. This provocative text highlights the significant role that white women played in enabling sexual violence against enslaved black women through a variety of responses and, at times, through their lack of response to the actions of the white men in their lives. Significantly, this book finds that sexual violence against enslaved black women was a widespread form of oppression used to perform white masculinity and reinforce an intersectional hierarchy. Additionally, white women played a vital role by enabling this sexual violence and perpetuating the subordination of themselves and those subordinate to them.
Sexuality And Slavery
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Author : Daina Ramey Berry
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2018
Sexuality And Slavery written by Daina Ramey Berry and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Social Science categories.
"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.
When Rape Was Legal
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Author : Rachel A. Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-09-03
When Rape Was Legal written by Rachel A. Feinstein and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Social Science categories.
When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that enabled this violence are all explored and scrutinized. Enlightening analysis found that rape was not merely a result of sexual desire and opportunity, or simply a form of punishment and racial domination, but instead encompassed all of these dimensions as part of the identity of white masculinity. This provocative text highlights the significant role that white women played in enabling sexual violence against enslaved black women through a variety of responses and, at times, through their lack of response to the actions of the white men in their lives. Significantly, this book finds that sexual violence against enslaved black women was a widespread form of oppression used to perform white masculinity and reinforce an intersectional hierarchy. Additionally, white women played a vital role by enabling this sexual violence and perpetuating the subordination of themselves and those subordinate to them.
Rethinking Rufus
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Author : Thomas A. Foster
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2019-05-01
Rethinking Rufus written by Thomas A. Foster and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically and in a wide variety of forms, including physical assault, sexual coercion, and other intimate violations. To tell the story of men such as Rufus-who was coerced into a sexual union with an enslaved woman, Rose, whose resistance of this union is widely celebrated-historian Thomas A. Foster interrogates a range of sources on slavery: early American newspapers, court records, enslavers' journals, abolitionist literature, the testimony of formerly enslaved people collected in autobiographies and in interviews, and various forms of artistic representation. Foster's sustained examination of how black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women makes an important contribution to our understanding of masculinity, sexuality, the lived experience of enslaved men, and the general power dynamics fostered by the institution of slavery. Rethinking Rufus illuminates how the conditions of slavery gave rise to a variety of forms of sexual assault and exploitation that affected all members of the community.
Consent In The Presence Of Force
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Author : Emily A. Owens
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2022-12-06
Consent In The Presence Of Force written by Emily A. Owens and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with Social Science categories.
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. Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured "the presence of force" with arrangements that included gifts and money. Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires "the presence of force" and "the absence of consent" to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced, rather than prevented, violence against Black women. Owens dramatically reorients our understanding of enslaved women's lives as well as of the nature of violence in the entire venture of racial slavery in the U.S. South. Unsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.
Slave Breeding
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Author : Gregory D. Smithers
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Slave Breeding written by Gregory D. Smithers and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with History categories.
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.
American Slavery As It Is
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Author : American Anti-Slavery Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
American Slavery As It Is written by American Anti-Slavery Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with Enslaved persons categories.
Terror In The Heart Of Freedom
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Author : Hannah Rosén
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009
Terror In The Heart Of Freedom written by Hannah Rosén and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Celia A Slave
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Author : Melton A. McLaurin
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Celia A Slave written by Melton A. McLaurin and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.