1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
... 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 writing on enslaved women, there is much mention on the identity slaves forged for themselves, which was developed through various modes of resistance. In a 2002 essay titled "The Pleasures of ... , very elaborate clothing. Accustomed to wearing tattered, poor quality fabric that further relegated their status, bondswomen "went to great trouble to create and wear clothes of quality and, importantly, st...
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