Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells-Oghoghomeh |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS-OGHOGHOMEH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Demands of Justice
Journal Article The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia Get access The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia. By Tamika Y Nunley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xiv, 243 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $27.95.) Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on…
Heathen Sight and the Problem of Anti-Africanness
In his 1615 account of the Upper Guinea Coast Etiópia Menor e descripção géografica da Província da Serra Leoa, Portuguese priest Manual Alvares described at length the so-called "superstitions" of the Susu, Temne, and other inhabitants of the region which rendered the "Ethiopians" in need of the light of Christian intervention. According to Alvares, their superstitions were "those common to all heathen" and paralleled those of the "Moor and the …
Engendering Slave Religion
This article argues for a deprioritization of religious tradition in favor of practice-centered approaches to the study of religion among enslaved people in the United States as a means of rendering the African Atlantic and gendered dimensions more legible. In the wake of W.E.B. Du Bois’s famous argument for “the preacher, the music, and the frenzy” as the constitutive elements of African American religiosity in slavery, the historiography of sla…
Denmark Vesey’s Bible
Journal Article Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial. By Jeremy Schipper Get access Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial By Jeremy Schipper Princeton University Press, 2022. 181 pages. $26.95 (hardcover). Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Stanford University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Being Muslim
Your Sister in the Gospel
Book Review| January 01 2021 Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Reviewed by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. …
The Souls of Womenfolk
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women’s lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-center…
Race and Religion in the Afterlife of Protestant Supremacy
In her bookChristian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, Katharine Gerbner offers a rich history of Protestant planters' efforts to tether Christian identity to free status and European descent in the American colonies, and missionaries' answering attempts to reconcile African and indigenous conversion with enslavement. Gerbner's concept of Protestant Supremacy names the sociopolitical function and economic utility of "…
She Come Like a Nightmare”
In the historiography of slave culture and folk beliefs in the U.S. South, the hag of African American lore has generally been more closely allied with Western European lineages than West African antecedents. Using the cultures of the upper Guinea coast in addition to Western European witchcraft discourses as interpretive contexts, this article argues that enslaved people infused the English term “hag” with beliefs about female-embodied, trans-se…
The Souls of Womenfolk
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women’s lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-center…
She Come Like a Nightmare”
In the historiography of slave culture and folk beliefs in the U.S. South, the hag of African American lore has generally been more closely allied with Western European lineages than West African antecedents. Using the cultures of the upper Guinea coast in addition to Western European witchcraft discourses as interpretive contexts, this article argues that enslaved people infused the English term “hag” with beliefs about female-embodied, trans-se…
Race and Religion in the Afterlife of Protestant Supremacy
In her bookChristian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, Katharine Gerbner offers a rich history of Protestant planters' efforts to tether Christian identity to free status and European descent in the American colonies, and missionaries' answering attempts to reconcile African and indigenous conversion with enslavement. Gerbner's concept of Protestant Supremacy names the sociopolitical function and economic utility of "…
Your Sister in the Gospel
Book Review| January 01 2021 Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Reviewed by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. …
The Souls of Womenfolk
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women’s lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-center…
Engendering Slave Religion
This article argues for a deprioritization of religious tradition in favor of practice-centered approaches to the study of religion among enslaved people in the United States as a means of rendering the African Atlantic and gendered dimensions more legible. In the wake of W.E.B. Du Bois’s famous argument for “the preacher, the music, and the frenzy” as the constitutive elements of African American religiosity in slavery, the historiography of sla…
Denmark Vesey’s Bible
Journal Article Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial. By Jeremy Schipper Get access Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial By Jeremy Schipper Princeton University Press, 2022. 181 pages. $26.95 (hardcover). Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Stanford University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Being Muslim
The Demands of Justice
Journal Article The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia Get access The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia. By Tamika Y Nunley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xiv, 243 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $27.95.) Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on…
Heathen Sight and the Problem of Anti-Africanness
In his 1615 account of the Upper Guinea Coast Etiópia Menor e descripção géografica da Província da Serra Leoa, Portuguese priest Manual Alvares described at length the so-called "superstitions" of the Susu, Temne, and other inhabitants of the region which rendered the "Ethiopians" in need of the light of Christian intervention. According to Alvares, their superstitions were "those common to all heathen" and paralleled those of the "Moor and the …
History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)