Rethinking Rufus : sexual violations of enslaved men /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Foster, Thomas A., author.
Imprint:	Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Gender and slavery Gender and slavery (Athens, Ga.)
Subject:	Slaves -- Abuse of -- United States -- History. Slaves -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History. Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. Male sexual abuse victims -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Male rape victims -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Male rape -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Slave trade -- United States -- History. Slaveholders -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History. Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. Male rape. Male rape victims. Male sexual abuse victims. Plantation life. Slave trade. Slaves -- Abuse of. Slaves -- Family relationships. Southern States. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12485518

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Sexual violations of enslaved men
ISBN:	9780820355207 0820355208 9780820355214 0820355216 9780820355221 0820355224
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 13, 2019).
Summary:	"This book uses a wide range of sources on slavery--early American newspapers, court records, slave owners' journals, abolitionist literature, and the testimony of former slaves collected in autobiographies and in interviews--to argue that enslaved black men were sexually assaulted by both white men and white women. Scholarship has focused on women's exploitation and abuse and has noted that many of our sources similarly emphasize the abuse of women, silencing the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources finds that sexual assault of enslaved men took a wide variety of forms, including outright physical penetrative assault, forced reproduction, sexual coercion and manipulation, and psychic abuse."--Provided by publisher
Other form:	Print version: Foster, Thomas A. Rethinking Rufus. Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2019] 9780820355214
Standard no.:	40029229210

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Remarkably Muscular and Well Made" or "Covered with Ulcers"
Enslaved Black Men's Bodies
ch. 2 "No Man Can Be Prevented from Visiting His Wife"
Manly Autonomy and Intimacy
ch. 3 "Just Like Raising Stock and Mating It"
Coerced Reproduction
ch. 4 "Frequently Heard Her Threaten to Sell Him"
Relations between White Women and Enslaved Black Men
ch. 5 "Till I Had Mastered Every Part"
Valets, Vulnerability, and Same- Gender Relations under Slavery.

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