1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
Initial literature on enslaved black women analyzes stereotypes constructed of African women brought to the new world. ... "In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference.... Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority to further legitimize African subjugation. The first comprehensive book to be wr...
- Word Count: 1150
- Approx Pages: 5
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate