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Wicked flesh : black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world Cover Image Book Book

Wicked flesh : black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world

Johnson, Jessica Marie (author.).

Summary: "This book follows African women and women of African descent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they move from Africa to the Caribbean to Louisiana. The book looks at how these women used subtle ways to achieve freedom: through marriage, baptism (thereby gaining the support of the church), property ownership, and writing wills to leave their assets to their descendants. These women were feminists ahead of their time"--

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  • ISBN: 9780812252385
  • ISBN: 0812252381
  • Physical Description: print
    316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lansdowne Library F 379 N59 N44427 2020 (Text) 26040003397417 Main Collection Volume hold Available -
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