| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 282 pages : map ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Black religion/womanist thought/social justice
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Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-263) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Ancestral Vibrations -- Pt. 1. Precolonial West Africa: Context and Perspectives -- 1. "Dey Fooled Dem to Come": Seduction and Trickery in the African Slave Trade -- 2. "Before the Arrival of the Good Ship Jesus": African Women in Precolonial West Africa -- Pt. 2. Historical Grotesque Realities -- 3. "Trouble Done Bore Me Down": Intimate Violence against Enslaved Women -- Enslaved Women and Domestic Violence: "Dey wuked me lak a dog an' beat me somepin tumble" -- 4. "Dat Man Grabbed Me an' Strip Me Naked": Enslaved Women and Sexual Violence -- 5. "In the Company of My Sisters": Violence among Women in the American Colonies -- Enslaved Women and Sisterhood Violence: "Misses would beat and stomp away, with all the venom of a demon" -- Enslaved Women and Sistah-hood Violence: "That woman was simply mean" -- 6. "Fix Me Jesus": Enslaved Women and Self-Violence -- Pt. 3. Yearning for the Beautiful -- 7. "However Far the Stream Flows It Never Forgets Its Source": Five Strategies of Subversion and Freedom -- 8. "The Current Continues": Four More Strategies of Subversion and Freedom. |
| Subject |
Enslaved women -- North America -- Social conditions.
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Enslaved women. |
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North America. |
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Social conditions. |
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Enslaved women -- Africa, West -- Social conditions.
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West Africa. |
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Women, Black -- North America -- Social conditions.
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Women, Black. |
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Slave narratives -- North America -- History and criticism.
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Slave narratives. |
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Slave narratives -- Africa, West -- History and criticism.
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Women, Black, in literature. |
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North America -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| ISBN |
9780230618466 |
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0230618464 |
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