1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
"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.... In more recent writing on enslaved women, there is much mention on the identity slaves forged for themselves, which was developed through various modes of resistance. ...
- Word Count: 1150
- Approx Pages: 5
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate