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Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Their practices laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century.
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Wicked Flesh, Jessica Johnson
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- Title
- Wicked Flesh
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jessica Johnson
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publisher
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0812252381
- ISBN13
- 9780812252385
- Category
- Social sciences, History
- Description
- Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Their practices laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century.