Wicked flesh : black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world

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Title
"Wicked flesh : black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world"
Statement of Responsibility
Jessica Marie Johnson
Publisher
  • University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year
  • c2020
Book size
24 cm

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Notes

Summary: "This book follows African women and women of African descent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they move from Africa to the Caribbean to Louisiana. The book looks at how these women used subtle ways to achieve freedom: through marriage, baptism (thereby gaining the support of the church), property ownership, and writing wills to leave their assets to their descendants. These women were feminists ahead of their time"--Provided by publisher

Includes index

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