Wicked Flesh

Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Their practices laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century.

Povestea libertatii este esentiala pentru alegerile pe care femeile negre le-au facut pentru a-si pastra controlul asupra corpului si sinelui lor, a celor dragi si a viitorului lor. Este modelat de opresiunile deosebite cu care se confrunta femeile africane si femeile de origine africana.