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Slave Stories
- Law, Representation, and Gender in the Danish West Indies
Engelsk Hæftet
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Slave Stories
- Law, Representation, and Gender in the Danish West Indies
Engelsk Hæftet

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In the Danish West Indies, hundreds of enslaved men and women and a handful of Danish judges engaged in a broken, often distorted dialogue in court. Their dialogue was shaped by a shared concern with the ways slavery clashed with sexual norms and family life. Some enslaved men and women crafted respectable Christian self-portraits, which in time allowed victims of sexual abuse and rape to publicly narrate their experiences. Other slaves stressed African-Atlantic traditions when explaining their domestic conflicts. Yet these gripping stories did not influence the legal system. While the judges cunningly embraced slave testimony, they also reached guilty verdicts in most trials and punished with extreme brutality. Slaves spoke, but mostly to no avail.

In Slave Stories, Gunvor Simonsen reconstructs the narratives crafted by slaves and traces the distortions instituted by Danish West Indian legal practice. In doing so, she draws us closer to the men and women who lived in bondage in the Danish West Indies (present-day US Virgin Islands) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
245
ISBN-13:
9788771249170
Indbinding:
Hæftet
Udgave:
1
ISBN-10:
8771249176
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 dec 2017
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
172mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Oplagsdato:
4 dec 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge