Author: Territory of Orleans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Acts Passed at the First Session of the Second Legislature of the Territory of Orleans
Author: Territory of Orleans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Consent in the Presence of Force
Author: Emily A. Owens
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469670526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated—even normalized—a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access. Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured "the presence of force" with arrangements that included gifts and money. Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires "the presence of force" and "the absence of consent" to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced, rather than prevented, violence against Black women. Owens dramatically reorients our understanding of enslaved women's lives as well as of the nature of violence in the entire venture of racial slavery in the U.S. South. Unsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469670526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated—even normalized—a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access. Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured "the presence of force" with arrangements that included gifts and money. Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires "the presence of force" and "the absence of consent" to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced, rather than prevented, violence against Black women. Owens dramatically reorients our understanding of enslaved women's lives as well as of the nature of violence in the entire venture of racial slavery in the U.S. South. Unsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.
Acts Passed at the First Session of the First Legislature of the Territory of Orleans
Author: Territory of Orleans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
American Imprints Inventory
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Interim Appointment
Author: Jared W. Bradley
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Orleans Territory, was at the hub of officials who grappled with the political, diplomatic, and administrative challenges that arose following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Letters both to and from Claiborne during the critical months of 1804–1805, mysteriously excluded in 1917 from Dunbar Rowland’s Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801–1816, are now made widely accessible, over half of them published here for the first time. To enhance appreciation of the letters, Jared William Bradley has furnished biographical sketches of thirty-one heretofore little-known individuals crucial to Claiborne’s correspondence, delineating their personalities and their contributions to the development of law and the establishment of American government in the French Creole society. Bradley also treats in four essays the origins and growth of the “Municipal,” or the New Orleans city council; two organizations of businessmen that were ensnared in the so-called Burr Conspiracy in 1807; and the early history of Fort St. Philip, which guarded access to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Bradley’s essays joined with 218 of Claiborne’s letters makes Interim Appointment of incalculable value. It provides fresh insights into the political, constitutional, and social histories of Louisiana and the United States.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Orleans Territory, was at the hub of officials who grappled with the political, diplomatic, and administrative challenges that arose following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Letters both to and from Claiborne during the critical months of 1804–1805, mysteriously excluded in 1917 from Dunbar Rowland’s Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801–1816, are now made widely accessible, over half of them published here for the first time. To enhance appreciation of the letters, Jared William Bradley has furnished biographical sketches of thirty-one heretofore little-known individuals crucial to Claiborne’s correspondence, delineating their personalities and their contributions to the development of law and the establishment of American government in the French Creole society. Bradley also treats in four essays the origins and growth of the “Municipal,” or the New Orleans city council; two organizations of businessmen that were ensnared in the so-called Burr Conspiracy in 1807; and the early history of Fort St. Philip, which guarded access to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Bradley’s essays joined with 218 of Claiborne’s letters makes Interim Appointment of incalculable value. It provides fresh insights into the political, constitutional, and social histories of Louisiana and the United States.
Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana, 1803-1934
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana, 1803-1934
Author: Tennessee Historical Records Survey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana, 1803-1934
Author: Louisiana Historical Records Survey
Publisher: Baton Rouge, La. : Hill memorial library, Louisiana state university
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher: Baton Rouge, La. : Hill memorial library, Louisiana state university
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The African American Experience in Louisiana: From Africa to the Civil War
Author: Charles Vincent
Publisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description