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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/464962 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Author: Jessica Marie Johnson
Narrator: Machelle Williams
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Release date: March 9, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship—husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy—corporeal, carnal, quotidian—tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/464962 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Author: Jessica Marie Johnson
Narrator: Machelle Williams
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Release date: March 9, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship—husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy—corporeal, carnal, quotidian—tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast.