1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
... apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference." For instance, in the mid-seventeenth century Englishman Richard Ligon wrote of the black women he encountered on his travels as having monstrous bodies, with breasts that "[hung] down below their navels, so that when they [stooped] at their common work or weeding, they [hung] almost to the ... by "dancing down" one man after another in the center. Whether through competitive dance or fashion showcasing, these heterodox behaviors countered the status branded upon enslaved women, and more significantly empowered them to r...
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