Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
- ISBN-10
- 0812252381
- ISBN-13
- 9780812252385
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Early American Studies
- Author
- Jessica Marie Johnson
Description
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.
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