Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser. Book 1)

This groundbreaking collection of essays places sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas, challenging the marginalization or overlooking of its importance in mainstream studies.

Editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M.

Harris explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power.

The book examines sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and repression, as well as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.

With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this collection provides a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the many facets of sexuality within slave communities.