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DESCRIPTION: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 in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were 
 executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. In the 
 process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to 
 expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can 
 be known about these women.\n\nFuentes recovers stories about otherwise 
 invisible and forgotten urban enslaved women as they moved through space, 
 navigated the violence of slave society, and negotiated a town that was 
 predominantly female. In this work, Fuentes asks us to consider how to 
 challenge the histories of the powerful and shows, throughout the book, 
 that the historical lives of the powerless requires particular care and an 
 ethical practice or recovery.\n\nMarisa J. Fuentes is Associate Professor 
 of women's and gender studies and history at Rutgers University-New 
 Brunswick. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/20/18793930.php
SUMMARY:Marisa J. Fuentes presents her new book Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence...
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 DURANT AVENUE, Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/20/18793930.php
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