In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. ... Here, slaves were able to "take pleasure in their own bodies" through social interaction and various forms of entertainment. ... Accustomed to wearing tattered, p...

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