... the 70's, we have witnessed "the flourishing of almost a cult of pluralism in matters pertaining to history and memory". These breakthroughs in academia have contributed especially to the inclusion and representation of black women who took part in slavery. In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. Initial literature ... 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 racialize...

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