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Author Foster, Thomas A., author.

Title Rethinking Rufus : sexual violations of enslaved men / Thomas A. Foster.

Publication Info. Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Gender and slavery
Gender and slavery (Athens, Ga.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This book uses a wide range of sources on slavery--early American newspapers, court records, slave owners' journals, abolitionist literature, and the testimony of former slaves collected in autobiographies and in interviews--to argue that enslaved black men were sexually assaulted by both white men and white women. Scholarship has focused on women's exploitation and abuse and has noted that many of our sources similarly emphasize the abuse of women, silencing the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources finds that sexual assault of enslaved men took a wide variety of forms, including outright physical penetrative assault, forced reproduction, sexual coercion and manipulation, and psychic abuse."--Provided by publisher.
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Remarkably Muscular and Well Made" or "Covered with Ulcers" -- Enslaved Black Men's Bodies -- ch. 2 "No Man Can Be Prevented from Visiting His Wife" -- Manly Autonomy and Intimacy -- ch. 3 "Just Like Raising Stock and Mating It" -- Coerced Reproduction -- ch. 4 "Frequently Heard Her Threaten to Sell Him" -- Relations between White Women and Enslaved Black Men -- ch. 5 "Till I Had Mastered Every Part" -- Valets, Vulnerability, and Same- Gender Relations under Slavery.
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Abuse of -- United States -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Abuse of.
United States.
History.
Enslaved persons -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.
Enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships.
Southern States.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Male sexual abuse victims -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Male sexual abuse victims.
Male rape victims -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Male rape victims.
Male rape -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Male rape.
Slave trade -- United States -- History.
Slave trade.
Slaveholders -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History.
Slaveholders.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Sexual violations of enslaved men
Other Form: Print version: Foster, Thomas A. Rethinking Rufus. Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2019] 9780820355214 (DLC) 2018049578 (OCoLC)1052842034
ISBN 9780820355207 (electronic book)
0820355208 (electronic book)
9780820355214
0820355216
9780820355221
0820355224
Standard No. 40029229210