... identity), giving her supposedly "equal" authority to him. Conceptions of a domineering, matriarchal black woman correspondingly emerged. "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." For instance ... least in part, to defy their masters. While slaveowners demanded total obedience from their slaves, it is easy to see that unconditional submission was never fully achieved. In more recent writi...

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