Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

by Marisa J. Fuentes

Book Overview

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224183
• ISBN13: 9780812224184
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"