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Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

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Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans - Owens, Emily A
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"In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access"--

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Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans 2023, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469670515

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Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans 2023, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469672137

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