Name: Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)
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Author: Fuentes, Marisa J.
ISBN: 9780812248227

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)

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Physical Book

Author

Marisa J. Fuentes

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 16.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780812248227

Synopsis "Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)"

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death. By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects.

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