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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"enslaved women"”.
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On the Tails of the Trade: Enslaved Women, Slave Traders, and the Households they Shared
Throughout the antebellum period, enslaved women engaged in intimate relationships with white men, some of whom were actually slave traders, upholding the institution that kept them in bondage. While each individual’s experience varied, the origins and subsequent circumstances of these women …
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From Servitude to Freedom: Gender, Labor, and Domestic Relations
<p>In the sugar parishes of Louisiana, enslaved people endured high mortality rates and declining populations at the height of the harsh slave regime in the mid-twentieth century. This resulted from regional disease, brutal working conditions, and a skewed sex ratio where enslaved men consistently …
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When Violence Thrives in Silence: Highlighting Narratives of Women Survivors of Obstetric Violence in Alabama
… social phenomenon of maltreatment and abuse of women by medical systems and personnel at hospital-based facilities during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods. Recently, this underreported and hidden form of abuse has been coined "obstetric violence" (Sadler et al., 2016; Second …
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"Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community
… in studies of the plantation South. Slave women actively engaged in both collective and individual acts of gynecological resistance. This work, "Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell: Gynecological Resistance in the Plantation Community", explores enslaved women's use of birth …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… in New England beginning in the 1630's, the enslaved African woman possessed a ""self-conscious"" identity that was both individual and collective. My dissertation uncovers acts of resistance and strategies of survival that enslaved New England women used to fashion an identity which enabled …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
… others sharing their circumstances. Some such women appear to have been “fancy girls,” the brand name for enslaved women and girls sold for use as prostitutes and concubines during the slavery era of United States history. Relying greatly on letters from ex-slaves and an ex-slave narrative, …