Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recoverthe cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression. INDICE: Introduction: Ancestral Vibrations - PART I: PRE-COLONIAL WEST AFRICA: CONTEXT ; PERSPECTIVES - Seduction and Trickery in the African Slave Trade - Before the Arrival of the Good - 'Trouble done bore me down': Intimate Violence against Enslaved Women - 'Dey wuked me lak a dog an' beat me somepin terrible': Enslaved Women and Domestic Violence - 'Dat man grabbed me an' strip me naked': Enslaved Women and Sexual Violence - In the Company of My Sisters: Violence among Women in American Colonies - 'Misses would beat and stomp away, with all the venom of a demon': Enslaved Women ; Sisterhood Violence - 'That woman was simply mean': Enslaved Women and Sistah-hood Violence - 'Fix Me Jesus': Enslaved Women and Self-Violence - PART II: YEARNING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL: THEART OF RESISTANCE - 'However far the stream flows it never forgets its source': Five Strategies of Subversion and Freedom - The Current Continues: Four More Strategies of Subversion and Freedom
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61846-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés