Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives

ISBN-10: 145290507X
ISBN-13: 9781452905075
Category: Enslaved persons' writings
Language: English
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Author: Jenny Sharpe

Description

Examining the lives of three distinctive Caribbean women (a maroon leader, a mulatto concubine and a fugitive slave), this study explains how the diasporic experience of slavery enabled black women to claim an authority that they didn't possess in Africa.

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Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives
- 2003
- 187 pages
- Paperback
- U of Minnesota Press
Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives
- 2003
- 187 pages
- Paperback
- U of Minnesota Press