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FUENTES, Marisa J. 2016. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.

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  • Anglo-American Reviews | 229 drivers on plantations was shared with constables, magistrates, jumpers, and executioners in urban areas” (37)

  • Fuentes goes beyond theorizing “silence” and uses geographic, demographic, literary, and legal methods to flesh out a historiography of women’s lives in eighteenthcentury Barbados. She does not attempt to recover the wholeness of these lives in the archive but instead points to the violence the archive does to enslaved women by enforcing their historical silence, leaving virtually no trace of enslaved voices and emphasizing either their status as commodified objects through the chattel slave trade or their status as criminalized and brutalized bodies through logs of their punishments

  • She explores how the colonial state stepped in to enact violence on enslaved women found culpable of numerous “offenses” that included running away or poisoning a white resident, while it maintained laws that prohibited enslaved persons in court itself — offering them no ability to testify, and no compensation for harm besides the sum paid to their owners for lost property

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Anglo-American Reviews | 229 drivers on plantations was shared with constables, magistrates, jumpers, and executioners in urban areas” (37). Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.

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