Wicked flesh : black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world /

Wicked flesh : black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world / Jessica Marie Johnson.

"This book follows African women and women of African descent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they move from Africa to the Caribbean to Louisiana. The book looks at how these women used subtle ways to achieve freedom: through marriage, baptism (thereby gaining the support of the c...

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Main Author: Johnson, Jessica Marie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 18th century.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 18th century.
Women, Black > Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
Women, Black > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions > 18th century.
Slave trade > Social aspects > Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
African diaspora > History > 18th century.
African Americans > Kinship > History > 18th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations > History > 18th century.
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Call Number: F379.N59 J64 2020eb
Status: Available

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