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Rethinking Rufus : sexual violations of enslaved men / Thomas A. Foster.
Loaned to Another Library E443 .F675 2019
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Thomas A., author.
- Series:
- Gender and slavery (Athens, Ga.)
- Gender and slavery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Abuse of--United States--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Sexual behavior--United States--History.
- Enslaved persons--Family relationships--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Male sexual abuse victims--United States--History--19th century.
- Male sexual abuse victims.
- Male rape victims--United States--History--19th century.
- Male rape victims.
- Male rape--United States--History--19th century.
- Male rape.
- Slave trade--United States--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slaveholders.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Family relationships.
- Enslaved persons--Abuse of.
- United States.
- Slaveholders--Sexual behavior--United States--History.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Plantation life.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 174 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Sexual violations of enslaved men
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book uses a wide range of sources on slavery--early American newspapers, court records, slave owners' journals, abolitionist literature, and the testimony of former slaves collected in autobiographies and in interviews--to argue that enslaved black men were sexually assaulted by both white men and white women. Scholarship has focused on women's exploitation and abuse and has noted that many of our sources similarly emphasize the abuse of women, silencing the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources finds that sexual assault of enslaved men took a wide variety of forms, including outright physical penetrative assault, forced reproduction, sexual coercion and manipulation, and psychic abuse."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820355214
- 0820355216
- 9780820355221
- 0820355224
- OCLC:
- 1052842034
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