Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in Antebellum New Orleans / Emily A. Owens.

Author/creator Owens, Emily A. author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Descriptionxvi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Enslaved women--Abuse of. --Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
Enslaved women--Sexual behavior. --Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
Enslaved women--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --19th century.
African American women--Abuse of. --Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
African American women--Sexual behavior. --Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
African American women--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --19th century.
Sexual abuse victims--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
Rape--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
Sex workers--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.

Contents Preface: On Lies (Or, After Archival Failure) -- Introduction: Eliza's Last Child -- Ordinary Violence -- Any White Woman or Girl -- Contracts -- Of Mistresses and Concubines: Ann Maria Barclay's Critique of Marriage -- Seeing New Orleans Again -- Afterword: Believe Women.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781469670539
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2022033431
ISBN9781469670515 hardcover
ISBN1469670518 hardcover
ISBN9781469672137 paperback
ISBN1469672138 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book