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Wicked Flesh : Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 [©2020]

1 online resource (257 pages)

Englisch

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978-0-8122-9724-9

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LOC-SH: African American women -- History -- 18th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans ; African American women-Louisiana-New Orleans-History-18th century

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.