E West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E West |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3444-3814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley
Reviewed by: An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley Emily West (bio) An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade. By Alexandra J. Finley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 184. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $22.95.) An Intimate Economy is exciting and innovative, well worthy of a place in the growing canon of work on U.S. gender and s…
“We Chilluns, Long wid Her, Wuz Lak de Udder Slaves”: Free Black Families and Quasi-slavery in the Late Antebellum Era
This article shows how and why some free black families ended up living among the enslaved in the late antebellum era. Enslavers brought free people of colour into forms of informal quasi-slavery that differed little from enslavement despite their free legal status. Despite a lack of evidence, piecing together free blacks’ experiences through surviving sources reveals much about the porous boundary between slavery and freedom where enslavers mani…
In the shadow of Dred Scott: St Louis freedom suits and the legal culture of slavery in Antebellum America
In the shadow of Dred Scott: St Louis freedom suits and the legal culture of slavery in Antebellum America." Slavery & Abolition, 40(1), pp. 207–208
Reflections on the History and Historians of the black woman’s role in the community of slaves: Enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence
Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parish’s 1989 book, Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davis’s seminal 1971 article, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because ra…
Fertility control, shared nurturing, and dual exploitation: The lives of enslaved mothers in the antebellum United States
Slaveholders believed women could both labour and care for their children simultaneously, and they routinely exploited enslaved mothers as both workers and as reproducers. Using Stephanie Camp’s conceptualization of enslaved women’s bodies as sites of resistance, this article argues that despite slavery’s arduousness motherhood provided a place of refuge for enslaved women to enjoy their children and the camaraderie of their peers. However, women…
Special issue of Women’s History Review —Mothering slaves: Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Rio de Janeiro, 1845: Inacia, an enslaved woman, gives birth to triplets, attended by a white doctor at the request of her slaveholder. All her babies die during their first night.Havana, 1854: a f
Mothering slaves: Comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Kingston, Jamaica, 1831: A newspaper published by free men of colour which campaigns for free coloured civil rights publishes a letter attacking free women of colour for their inadequate motherhood
American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston." Slavery & Abolition, 34(3), pp. 531–532
Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West
Journal Article Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West Get access Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West. By Robert L. Dorman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012. xiv, 256 pp. $50.00.) Elliott West Elliott West University of ArkansasFayetteville, Arkansas [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 2, Septembe…
Between Slavery and Freedom: The expulsion and enslavement of free women of colour in the US South before the Civil War
For free black women in the pre-Civil War American South, the status offered by ‘freedom’ was uncertain and malleable. The conceptualization of bondage and freedom as two diametrically opposed conditions therefore fails to make sense of the complexities of life for these women. Instead, notions of enslavement and freedom are better framed as a spectrum. This article develops this idea by exploring two of the ways in which some black women negotia…
She is dissatisfied with her present condition’: Requests for Voluntary Enslavement in the Antebellum American South
During the antebellum era, especially its latter stages, some Southern state legislatures and county courts received petitions on behalf of free people of colour requesting enslavement. Their reasons for doing so varied, and while these individuals are atypical in the sense that their often desperate actions were not representative of the aspirations of the majority of Southern free blacks, as a group they reveal much about the intersection of ra…
Masters and marriages, profits and paternalism: Slave owners’ perspectives on cross‐plantation unions in antebellum South Carolina
Families in the West
Journal Article Families in the West Get access Elliott West Elliott West Elliott West is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He has written The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (1979) and Growing Up With the Country (1989). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Fall 1994, Pages 18–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/9.1.18 Publ…
Aboriginal Education
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Thomas Prince and New England History
Mothering slaves: Comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Kingston, Jamaica, 1831: A newspaper published by free men of colour which campaigns for free coloured civil rights publishes a letter attacking free women of colour for their inadequate motherhood
Special issue of Women’s History Review —Mothering slaves: Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Rio de Janeiro, 1845: Inacia, an enslaved woman, gives birth to triplets, attended by a white doctor at the request of her slaveholder. All her babies die during their first night.Havana, 1854: a f
Reflections on the History and Historians of the black woman’s role in the community of slaves: Enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence
Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parish’s 1989 book, Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davis’s seminal 1971 article, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because ra…
Fertility control, shared nurturing, and dual exploitation: The lives of enslaved mothers in the antebellum United States
Slaveholders believed women could both labour and care for their children simultaneously, and they routinely exploited enslaved mothers as both workers and as reproducers. Using Stephanie Camp’s conceptualization of enslaved women’s bodies as sites of resistance, this article argues that despite slavery’s arduousness motherhood provided a place of refuge for enslaved women to enjoy their children and the camaraderie of their peers. However, women…
Thomas Prince and New England History
Thomas Prince and New England History
Aboriginal Education
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Families in the West
Journal Article Families in the West Get access Elliott West Elliott West Elliott West is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He has written The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (1979) and Growing Up With the Country (1989). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 9, Issue 1, Fall 1994, Pages 18–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/9.1.18 Publ…
Masters and marriages, profits and paternalism: Slave owners’ perspectives on cross‐plantation unions in antebellum South Carolina
She is dissatisfied with her present condition’: Requests for Voluntary Enslavement in the Antebellum American South
During the antebellum era, especially its latter stages, some Southern state legislatures and county courts received petitions on behalf of free people of colour requesting enslavement. Their reasons for doing so varied, and while these individuals are atypical in the sense that their often desperate actions were not representative of the aspirations of the majority of Southern free blacks, as a group they reveal much about the intersection of ra…
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston." Slavery & Abolition, 34(3), pp. 531–532
Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West
Journal Article Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West Get access Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West. By Robert L. Dorman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012. xiv, 256 pp. $50.00.) Elliott West Elliott West University of ArkansasFayetteville, Arkansas [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 2, Septembe…
Between Slavery and Freedom: The expulsion and enslavement of free women of colour in the US South before the Civil War
For free black women in the pre-Civil War American South, the status offered by ‘freedom’ was uncertain and malleable. The conceptualization of bondage and freedom as two diametrically opposed conditions therefore fails to make sense of the complexities of life for these women. Instead, notions of enslavement and freedom are better framed as a spectrum. This article develops this idea by exploring two of the ways in which some black women negotia…
American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
Special issue of Women’s History Review —Mothering slaves: Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Rio de Janeiro, 1845: Inacia, an enslaved woman, gives birth to triplets, attended by a white doctor at the request of her slaveholder. All her babies die during their first night.Havana, 1854: a f
Mothering slaves: Comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Kingston, Jamaica, 1831: A newspaper published by free men of colour which campaigns for free coloured civil rights publishes a letter attacking free women of colour for their inadequate motherhood
Reflections on the History and Historians of the black woman’s role in the community of slaves: Enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence
Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parish’s 1989 book, Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davis’s seminal 1971 article, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because ra…
Fertility control, shared nurturing, and dual exploitation: The lives of enslaved mothers in the antebellum United States
Slaveholders believed women could both labour and care for their children simultaneously, and they routinely exploited enslaved mothers as both workers and as reproducers. Using Stephanie Camp’s conceptualization of enslaved women’s bodies as sites of resistance, this article argues that despite slavery’s arduousness motherhood provided a place of refuge for enslaved women to enjoy their children and the camaraderie of their peers. However, women…
In the shadow of Dred Scott: St Louis freedom suits and the legal culture of slavery in Antebellum America
In the shadow of Dred Scott: St Louis freedom suits and the legal culture of slavery in Antebellum America." Slavery & Abolition, 40(1), pp. 207–208
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley
Reviewed by: An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley Emily West (bio) An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade. By Alexandra J. Finley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 184. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $22.95.) An Intimate Economy is exciting and innovative, well worthy of a place in the growing canon of work on U.S. gender and s…
“We Chilluns, Long wid Her, Wuz Lak de Udder Slaves”: Free Black Families and Quasi-slavery in the Late Antebellum Era
This article shows how and why some free black families ended up living among the enslaved in the late antebellum era. Enslavers brought free people of colour into forms of informal quasi-slavery that differed little from enslavement despite their free legal status. Despite a lack of evidence, piecing together free blacks’ experiences through surviving sources reveals much about the porous boundary between slavery and freedom where enslavers mani…
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