Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser., 1)

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and repression and as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.

• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
• Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
• The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
• Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)
• Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
• Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series)
• Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century