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Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in Antebellum New Orleans
- Title
- Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in Antebellum New Orleans / Emily A. Owens.
- Author
- Owens, Emily A.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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- Description
- xvi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Enslaved women > Abuse of > History > Louisiana > New Orleans > 19th century
- Enslaved women > Sexual behavior > History > Louisiana > New Orleans > 19th century
- Enslaved women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 19th century
- African American women > Abuse of > History > Louisiana > New Orleans > 19th century
- African American women > Sexual behavior > History > Louisiana > New Orleans > 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
- African American women > Abuse of
- African American women > Sexual behavior
- African American women > Social conditions
- Rape
- Sex workers
- Sexual abuse victims
- Enslaved women > Social conditions
- Sexual practices
- Sexual assault
- Sexual violence
- Enslaved women
- Sex
- African American women
- Louisiana > New Orleans
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-220) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-828
- ISBN
- 9781469670515
- 1469670518
- 9781469672137
- 1469672138
- 9781469670522 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781469670539 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022033431
- OCLC
- 1337564231
- Author
- Owens, Emily A., author.
- Title
- Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in Antebellum New Orleans / Emily A. Owens.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-220) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-828