Power and Agency in Antebellum Slavery

Dusinberre, William

doi:10.1080/14664658.2011.594648

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“…Historian William Dusinbarre, in an essay summarizing his work on the antebellum slave era, asserts that slaves' discontent with their harsh treatment was primarily expressed through nonviolent actions: flight from the plantation (for days, weeks, or months), not acts of violence. His research on multiple specific plantations in the Savannah River region documents dozens of slave runaways per decade, but no recorded instances of violent resistance (Dusinbarre, 2011). Temporary flight was more common than permanent escape, for purely practical reasons.…”

Section: Resistance: Runaways Revolts and Self-emancipationmentioning

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Trauma’s “Underground History”

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Finally, thank you to Timothy Caspar and Ellen Johnson, who, in addition to being my loving parents, are singularly intelligent people who put up with their daughter's foray into the social sciences for four years and contributed to every draft of this work. I didn't forget you, Hannah-thanks for telling me I could do it. You're up now! I look forward to reading your thesis in four years-I'm sure it'll make me proud to be your sister. This thesis is dedicated to the memory of Keith Johnson, who made it possible for me to come to Wesleyan in the first place.

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Reflections on theHistory and Historiansof the black woman’s role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence

West

2018

American Nineteenth Century History

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Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parish's 1989 book, Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davis's seminal 1971 article, "Reflections on the black woman's role in the community of slaves," this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because rape and sexual assault have been defined in the past as non-consensual sexual acts supported by surviving legal evidence (generally testimony from court trials), it is hard for historians to research rape and sexual violence under slavery (especially marital rape) as there was no legal standing for the rape of enslaved women or the rape of any woman within marriage. This article suggests enslaved women recognized that black men could both be perpetrators of sexual violence and simultaneously be victims of the system of slavery. It also argues women stoically tolerated being forced into intimate relationships, sometimes even staying with "husbands" imposed upon them after emancipation.

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“I ain’ mad now and I know taint no use to lie”: honesty, anger, and emotional resistance in formerly enslaved women’s 1930s’ testimony

Wilson

2021

American Nineteenth Century History

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Power and Agency in Antebellum Slavery

Abstract: This essay synthesizes conclusions about the agency of enslaved people drawn from three books by William Dusinberre: Them Dark Days; Slavemaster President; and Strategies for Survival.

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Trauma’s “Underground History”

Trauma’s “Underground History”

Reflections on theHistory and Historiansof the black woman’s role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence

“I ain’ mad now and I know taint no use to lie”: honesty, anger, and emotional resistance in formerly enslaved women’s 1930s’ testimony

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