Sexual Violence And American Slavery

Author : Rachel A. Feinstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351809184

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When Rape was Legal by Rachel A. Feinstein Pdf

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.

Author : Shannon Eaves
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469678825

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Sexual Violence and American Slavery by Shannon Eaves Pdf

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.

Author : Daina Ramey Berry,Leslie Maria Harris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820354040

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Sexuality and Slavery by Daina Ramey Berry,Leslie Maria Harris Pdf

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.

Author : Thomas A. Foster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820355221

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Rethinking Rufus by Thomas A. Foster Pdf

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.

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813059150

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Slave Breeding by Gregory D. Smithers Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas A. Foster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820355221

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Rethinking Rufus by Thomas A. Foster Pdf

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.

Author : Andrea Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374817

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Conquest by Andrea Smith Pdf

In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women—the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.

Author : American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : BCUL:VD2266460

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American Slavery as it is by American Anti-Slavery Society Pdf

Author : Melton A. McLaurin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820369259

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Celia, a Slave by Melton A. McLaurin Pdf

Author : Daina Ramey Berry,Leslie Maria Harris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820354033

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Sexuality and Slavery by Daina Ramey Berry,Leslie Maria Harris Pdf

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.

Author : Lamonte Aidoo
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0822371294

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Slavery Unseen by Lamonte Aidoo Pdf

In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as well as racial and gender inequality. The myth of racial democracy, Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress; rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on into the present.

Author : Emily A. Owens
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469670522

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Consent in the Presence of Force by Emily A. Owens Pdf

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.

Author : Hannah Rosén
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807832028

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Terror in the Heart of Freedom by Hannah Rosén Pdf

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

Author : Peter J. Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429976940

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Slavery by Peter J. Parish Pdf

This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of ?the peculiar institution.? It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and its impact on the slaves themselves and on Southern society and culture. And it broadens our understanding of the debates among historians about slavery; compares Southern slavery with slavery elsewhere in the New World; and shows how slavery evolved and changed over time?and how it ended. Peter Parish examines some of the important recent works on slavery to identify crucial questions and basic themes and define the main areas of controversy.

Author : Estelle B. Freedman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674728493

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Redefining Rape by Estelle B. Freedman Pdf

The uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that rape remains a word in flux, subject to political power and social privilege. Redefining Rape describes the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the U.S., through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change.