African Women in the Atlantic World

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
African Women

Imagining Africa, Inheriting Monstrosity

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
African Women

This chapter traces the intellectual, legal, and anthropological processes by which the English transformed the concept of blackness into a collective, inheritable, and racial monstrosity, a category of being that made Africans, and in particular African women, supposedly “fit” for servitude. The English notion that Africans were monstrous and deformed beings suspended Africans in the space between the human and the animal, enabling colonists to exploit Africans’ humanity by enforcing forms of disablement onto the enslaved. The place of monstrosity in the emergence of slavery and antiblack racism is key to understanding the historically entwined construction of racism and ableism in the Atlantic World.

Lincoln in the Atlantic World

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise L. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World
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