Title Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in antebellum New Orleans / Emily A. Owens

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) : illustrations Contents Preface: On Lies (Or, After Archival Failure) -- Introduction: Eliza's Last Child -- Ordinary Violence -- Any White Woman or Girl -- Contracts -- Of Mistresses and Concubines: Ann Maria Barclay's Critique of Marriage -- Seeing New Orleans Again -- Afterword: Believe Women Summary "In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Enslaved women -- Abuse of -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century Enslaved women -- Sexual behavior -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century Enslaved women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century African American women -- Abuse of -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century African American women -- Sexual behavior -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century Sexual abuse victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century Rape -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century Sex workers -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Louisiana -- New Orleans. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469670539 1469670534 9781469670522 1469670526

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