In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway, inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color, in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos, to the gallows where enslaved people were executed, and with violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women. Though their stories appear only briefly in historical records, Marisa J. In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Jane : fugitivity, space, and structures of control in Bridgetown - Rachael and Joanna : power, historical figuring, and troubling freedom - Agatha : white women, slave owners, and the dialectic of racialized gender - Molly : enslaved women, condemnation, and gendered terror - "Venus" : abolition discourse, gendered violence, and the archive Includes bibliographical references and index Philadelphia : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, and ©2016Įnslaved women - Barbados - Bridgetown - Social conditions - 18th century Women - Barbados - Bridgetown - Social conditions - 18th century Slavery - Barbados - Bridgetown - History - 18th century Bridgetown (Barbados) - Ethnic relations - History - 18th century ISBN:ĩ780812248227, 0812248228, 9780812293005, 0812293002, 9780812248227 (hardcover : alk. Dispossessed lives : enslaved women, violence, and the archive
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