Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)
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 p…
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