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Journal articles on the topic "Women slaveholders"

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Vaughn Cross, C. A. "Southern Baptist Slaveholding Women and Mythologizers." Religions 15, no. 9 (2024): 1146. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15091146.

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Christian slaveholding should not be forgotten or minimized, nor should its mythologies go unchallenged or uncritiqued. This article surveys some of the leading Southern Baptist women slaveholders and mythologizers before and after the U.S. Civil War. It examines sources of SBC hagiography about the Convention foremothers and their persistent apologia for slaveholding. In particular, it discusses how female mythologizers in the antebellum and postbellum eras linked slaveholding, evangelism, and mission identity. It demonstrates how postbellum Southern Baptist women chose to view women slavehol

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DORNAN, INGE. "Masterful Women: Colonial Women Slaveholders in the Urban Low Country." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 3 (2005): 383–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805000587.

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When Abraham Minis, merchant and tavern keeper, of Savannah, Georgia sat down to draw up his last will and testament he faced a heart-wrenching dilemma: how would he successfully provide for all of his eight children and also ensure that his beloved wife Abigail would have enough to live out the rest of her days in widowhood in comfort? Three years later, in spring 1757, Abraham died. When his will was read, there were thankfully no surprises for Abigail and their children – Abraham had followed Low Country custom regarding the division of family wealth. He gave his three sons his horses and m

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Keener, Craig S. "African American Readings of Paul." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 32, no. 1 (2023): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-32010011.

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Abstract Lisa Bowens’s African American Readings of Paul provides a fascinating adventure for all those interested in reception history of Paul and/or the history of the Black Church in the United States. Although also engaging modern scholarship, Bowens allows the historic voices of the Black Church to speak for themselves, thus sometimes challenging paradigms established by earlier scholars working from more limited evidence. When enslaved persons read the Bible, they embraced its liberationist and justice-oriented principles, rescuing Paul from the counterreadings of the slaveholders. Bowen

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Paton, Diana. "MARY WILLIAMSON'S LETTER, OR, SEEING WOMEN AND SISTERS IN THE ARCHIVES OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 29 (November 1, 2019): 153–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080440119000070.

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ABSTRACT‘I was a few years back a slave on your property of Houton Tower, and as a Brown woman was fancied by a Mr Tumming unto who Mr Thomas James sold me.’ Thus begins Mary Williamson's letter, which for decades sat unexamined in an attic in Scotland until a history student became interested in her family's papers, and showed it to Diana Paton. In this article, Paton uses the letter to reflect on the history and historiography of ‘Brown’ women like Mary Williamson in Jamaica and other Atlantic slave societies. Mary Williamson's letter offers a rare perspective on the sexual encounters betwee

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Harris, Trudier. "Christianity’s Last Stand: Visions of Spirituality in Post-1970 African American Women’s Literature." Religions 11, no. 7 (2020): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11070369.

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Christianity appealed to writers of African descent from the moment they set foot on New World soil. That attraction, perhaps as a result of the professed mission of slaveholders to “Christianize the heathen African,” held sway in African American letters well into the twentieth century. While African American male writers joined their female counterparts in expressing an attraction to Christianity, black women writers, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, consistently began to express doubts about the assumed altruistic nature of a religion that had been used as justification for enslaving

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Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin. "From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation." Hawwa 17, no. 2-3 (2019): 257–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341359.

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Abstract This article deals with offences and crimes against female slaves, and those committed by female slaves, in Ottoman Istanbul (sixteenth-seventeeth centuries). Its main sources are imperial legislation and court records of the imperial capital, Istanbul, and its suburbs. Judicial archives remain the chief sources of early modern Ottoman historiography on gender. This contribution tackles slavery’s specificities regarding women, without ignoring the parallels with their male counterparts in the Ottoman Empire. By considering women as both objects and agents of legal violations and acts

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Lima, Henrique Espada. "“Until the Day of His Death”." Radical History Review 2021, no. 139 (2021): 52–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822602.

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Abstract This article examines postmortem inventories and notarial records from Brazilian slaveholders in southern Brazil in the nineteenth century. By discussing selected cases in detail, it investigates the relationship between “precarious masters” (especially the poor and/or disabled, widows without family, and single elderly slaveholding women and men) and their slaves and former slaves to whom they bequeathed, in their testaments and final wills, manumission and property. The article reads these documents as intergenerational contractual arrangements that connected the masters’ expectatio

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Chira, Adriana. "Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817–68." Law and History Review 36, no. 1 (2017): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248017000529.

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Drawing on thirty freedom suits from nineteenth-century eastern Cuba, this article explores how some slaves redefined slaveholders' oral promises of manumissions by grace from philanthropic acts into contracts providing a deferred wage payout. Manumissions by grace tended to reward affective labor (loyalty, affection) and to be granted to domestic slaves. Across Cuba, as in other slave societies of Spanish America, through self-purchase, slaves made sustained efforts to monetize the labor that they did by virtue of their ascribed status. The monetization of affective work stands out amongst su

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Hardesty, Jared Ross. "Disappearing from Abolitionism's Heartland: The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Boston." International Review of Social History 65, S28 (2020): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859020000176.

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AbstractThis article examines why Boston's slave and free black population consisted of more than 1,500 people in 1750, but by 1790 Boston was home to only 766 people of African descent. This disappearing act, where the town's black population declined by at least fifty per cent between 1763 and 1790, can only be explained by exploring slavery, abolition, and their legacies in Boston. Slaves were vital to the town's economy, filling skilled positions and providing labor for numerous industries. Using the skills acquired to challenge their enslavement, Afro-Bostonians found freedom during the A

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Nil Kamal Chakma. "Self-Making Without Inheritance: Harriet Jacobs’s Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl." Creative Launcher 7, no. 5 (2022): 37–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.5.04.

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The slaves, especially women, are more vulnerable than the men to the oppressive system of slavery. It does not only seize the idea of self from a slave (which constitutes a human being, and slavery seeks support from and utilizes the existing laws by which all the legal rights of the slaves are hijacked) but also it puts them (women) into a constant struggle to negotiate, not just for the construction of their ‘selves’ but for their motherhoods and the right of being called wives of their husbands and so forth. The masters, the white, adopt numerous evil strategies which sabotage the slaves f

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women slaveholders"

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Dornan, Ingeborg Irene. "Women slaveholders in the Georgia and South Carolina low country, 1750-1775." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251763.

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Sandeen, Loucynda Elayne. "Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1492.

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During the antebellum period of U.S. slavery (1830-1861), many people claimed ownership of the enslaved woman's body, both legally and figuratively. The assumption that they were merely property, however, belies the unstable, shifting truths about bodily ownership. This thesis inquires into the gendered specifics and ambiguities of the law, the body, and women under slavery. By examining the particular bodily regulation and exploitation of enslaved women, especially around their reproductive labor, I suggest that new operations of oppression and also of resistance come into focus. The legal st

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Books on the topic "Women slaveholders"

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Wood, Kirsten E. Fictive mastery: Slaveholding widows, gender, and power in the American Southeast, 1790-1860. [s.n.], 1998.

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Vita, Alexis Brooks De. The 1855 murder case of Missouri versus Celia, an enslaved woman: An exercise in historical imagination. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Manolo, Florentino, ed. As sinhás pretas da Bahia: Suas escravas, suas jóias. Topbooks, 2021.

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Fish, Laura. Strange Music. Random House Group Limited, 2009.

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Fox, Tryphena Blanche Holder. A northern woman in the plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876. University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

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Fox, Tryphena Blanche Holder. A northern woman in the plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876. University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

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Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Beacon Press, 1988.

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Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. 2nd ed. Beacon Press, 2003.

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Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Beacon Press, 1988.

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Susan, Wright. A pound of flesh. Roc, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Women slaveholders"

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de Hoog Cius, Fiona, and Kevin Bales. "‘In the Case of Women, It’s Total Viciousness’: Violence, Control, Power and Rage in Female Slaveholder-Enslaved Relationship." In International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42867-8_6.

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Walker, Christine. "Introduction." In Jamaica Ladies. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469658797.003.0001.

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The introduction uses a single document, the 1713 will of Elizabeth Keyhorne, a widowed free woman of African descent living in Kingston who was both a slaveholder and had children who were still enslaved, to illustrate the book’s key themes. In the first half of the eighteenth century, a remarkably diverse group of free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent helped to make Jamaica the wealthiest and largest slaveholding colony in the British Empire. As slaveholders, female colonists augmented their wealth, status, and legal independence on the island. Yet, many, like K

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Wilson, Evelyn L. "Black-White Personal Relationships." In A Place to Live in Peace. University Press of Mississippi, 2024. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496852168.003.0006.

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This chapter begins with a description of everyday black/white personal relationships and presents a complex picture of intertwined lives. It then discusses relationships rooted in slavery. Many white male slaveholders sexually exploited their enslaved women. Some abandoned their children who remained enslaved; others emancipated the children and may have made provision for their support. A few male slaveholders sought to establish a nuclear family with their children and the mother of the children. This chapter captures these relationships in their variety and examines them individually.

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"How to Be an Abolitionist." In New York's Burned-over District, edited by Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey. Cornell University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501770531.003.0059.

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This chapter discusses New Yorkers that opposed slavery and supported its end but remained wary of ultraism. It looks at a broadside published by prominent reformer Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York, which affirmed the popular perception of abolitionists as uncompromising and even unreasonable. It also includes some of the duties of an abolitionist, such as praying and laboring heartily for the welfare of the slaveholder and slave. The chapter highlights the belief of the abolitionists that if God hates the robbery for burnt offering, then it is wrong to patronize Associations that solicit t

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Fields-Black, Edda L. "Stolen Children." In Combee. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197552797.003.0003.

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Abstract This chapter talks about tobacco farmer Atthow Pattison’s bequeathment of Rit Green, Harriet Tubman’s mother, to his granddaughter, Mary Pattison after his death. It explores the typical norm of the time wherein wealthy white Southern girls and women inherit enslaved people who would take care of them, their children, and their homes and would help them maintain the proper station of a lady. It also analyzes Atthow’s motivation to limit Rit Green’s servitude by the Act of 1790, which allowed manumission of enslaved people under age 50 by deed or will. The chapter recounts the “abroad

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Glymph, Thavolia. "Poor White Women in the Confederacy." In The Women's Fight. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653631.003.0003.

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Poor white women and children hawking goods and traveling the roads in carts was not a new sight during the Civil War, but it did take on a different resonance in this context. How poor white women fit or were to be incorporated into a war for slavery garnered more concern from slaveholders, government, and military officials as the war progressed. Their increased visibility as dissenters from the Confederate project caused problems; they got into conflicts with other white, female refugees, engaged in outright resistance, and sided with poor and working-class white men who did not want to fig

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Zallen, Jeremy. "Piney Lights." In American Lucifers. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653327.003.0003.

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In the urban peripheral spaces of antebellum tenements, domestic workers and outworking seamstresses labored late into the night with cheap, explosive turpentine lamps. Using newspaper accounts, travel narratives, and letters between turpentine camp overseers and slaveholders, this chapter explores how the gendered politics of space and time in the ready-made clothing revolution were made through a new slave-produced illuminant called “camphene.” A volatile mixture of spirits of turpentine and high-proof alcohol, camphene connected outworking seamstresses in New York with the enslaved woodsmen

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Walker, Christine. "Manumissions." In Jamaica Ladies. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469658797.003.0007.

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The final chapter probes the ambivalent and varied intimate connections between free, formerly enslaved, and enslaved people from another angle, investigating women’s manumission practices. Manumission or legal freedom has typically been portrayed as a reward offered by white men to the enslaved women whom they maintained largely coercive sexual relationships with. Focusing on women’s manumission directives tells a different story. Whereas men preferred to manumit their biological children, female slaveholders largely freed other adult women whom they perceived to be intimate companions. Women

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Kantrowitz, Stephen. "Fighting Like Men Civil War Dilemmas of Abolitionist Manhood." In Battle Scars. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195174441.003.0002.

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Abstract In the decade before the Civil War, many of Massachusetts’s black and white abolitionist men mobilized themselves into unofficial armies against the slave power. They did much else, of course, some of it in collaboration with one another as well as with black and white women: speaking and petitioning against slavery, producing and distributing abolitionist literature, and providing aid to fugitives. But when it came to conceiving of themselves as soldiers in the war against slavery, black and white abolitionist men in the Bay State took dramatically different routes. Black men formed

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Luskey, Brian P. "A Great Social Problem." In Men Is Cheap. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469654324.003.0007.

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The war for Union, Abraham Lincoln reasoned, would be won on its balance sheet as much as in the hearts and minds of its citizens. This was true both from the perspective of the War Department and individual northern households. Union soldiers—volunteers, draftees, and substitutes—poured from the North toward the South to vanquish the slaveholders’ aristocracy. The manpower that went into their killing and dying work produced the movement of thousands of white and black southern refugees to the households of white northerners. Recruiters, brokers, benevolent societies, and northern families—al

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Reports on the topic "Women slaveholders"

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Rodrigues-Moura, Enrique, and Christina Märzhauser. Renegotiating the subaltern : Female voices in Peixoto’s «Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina» (Brazil, 1731/1741). Otto-Friedrich-Universität, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-57507.

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Out of ~11.000.000 enslaved Africans disembarked in the Americas, ~ 46% were taken to Brazil, where transatlantic slave trade only ended in 1850 (official abolition of slavery in 1888). In the Brazilian inland «capitania» Minas Gerais, slave numbers exploded due to gold mining in the first half of 18th century from 30.000 to nearly 300.000 black inhabitants out of a total ~350.000 in 1786. Due to gender demographics, intimate relations between African women and European men were frequent during Antonio da Costa Peixoto’s lifetime. In 1731/1741, this country clerk in Minas Gerais’ colonial admi

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