Exquisite Slaves examines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination.
Exquisite Slaves examines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination.
Tamara J. Walker earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. Her previous work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Safundi, Gender and History, and the Journal of Family History.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery 2. Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning 3. Black bodies and boundary trouble 4. Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation 5. Ladies, gentlemen, slaves, and citizens Epilogue.
Introduction 1. Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery 2. Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning 3. Black bodies and boundary trouble 4. Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation 5. Ladies, gentlemen, slaves, and citizens Epilogue.
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