“In the Company of My Sisters”

The sugarplum journey from West and West Central Africa to North American slave-owning properties was a brutally tumultuous and demoralizing one for enslaved African women born free. Their violent inhuman capture and New World exploitation marked the eruption of lawful domestic terrorism in North America during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The previous chapters have shown how slavers engaged in unimaginable terroristic acts against enslaved women’s bodies and souls in order to further their aim of New World expansion. In this chapter we turn our attention to acts of violence between white women and enslaved African women. Just as “the voices from the past are needed to accompany contemporary women on their journey of recovery” from violence by men, women’s experiences of violence at the hands of other women are also critical. Countless enslaved women’s narratives name violence among women as a pressing reality during the antebellum period. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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• Sisters of the Yam

  Bell Hooks•Sisters of the yam•2014

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