Consent in the Presence of Force : Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, Emily A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex workers--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Sex workers.

Rape--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Rape.

Sexual abuse victims--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Sexual abuse victims.

African American women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions--19th century.

African American women.

African American women--Sexual behavior--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

African American women--Abuse of--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Enslaved women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions--19th century.

Enslaved women.

Enslaved women--Sexual behavior--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Enslaved women--Abuse of--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

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.

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798890855961

9798890855978

9781469670522

1469670526

9781469670539

1469670534

OCLC:

1353838152