'Concubines', 'Mistresses', 'Wives': Questions of Intimacy, Violence, and Power in the British Atlantic and U.S. South.
This article examines discourses that developed in relation to terms such as 'concubine', 'mistress', and 'wife' in contemporary sources of the 18th and nineteenth century and in subsequent scholarship on Atlantic slavery. Over the eighteenth century, long-term sexual enslavement, a practice called...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 785 - 806 |
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