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.
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.
Introduction. The Women in the Water Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets' Overlapping Diasporas Chapter 3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage Chapter 4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans Chapter 5. Black Femme Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom Chapter 6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century List of Archives and Databases Notes Index Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Women in the Water Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets' Overlapping Diasporas Chapter 3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage Chapter 4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans Chapter 5. Black Femme Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom Chapter 6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century List of Archives and Databases Notes Index Acknowledgments
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