Title Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America / Renee K. Harrison

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) : map Series Black religion/womanist thought/social justice Black religion, womanist thought, social justice. 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 Summary Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-263) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Enslaved women -- North America -- Social conditions Enslaved women -- Africa, West -- Social conditions Women, Black -- North America -- Social conditions Slave narratives -- North America -- History and criticism Slave narratives -- Africa, West -- History and criticism Women, Black, in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Race relations Slave narratives Women, Black, in literature Women, Black -- Social conditions Enslaved women -- Social conditions Schwarze Frau Ethnische Beziehungen Sklaverei SUBJECT North America -- Race relations Subject West Africa North America USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230100664 023010066X 128266445X 9781282664456 9781349381036 1349381039

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