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Sex, Power, and Slavery

Gwyn Campbell, Elizabeth Elbourne · 2014

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Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a master was a potential route to manumission for some women. Sex, Power, and Slavery is the first history of slavery and bondage to take sexuality seriously. Twenty-six authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds look at the vexed, traumatic intersections of the histories of slavery and of sexuality. T.

Book details

Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Editions
3
Pages
704
ISBN
9780821420966

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