"To find shelter she knows not where" : freedom, movement, and gendered violence among free people of color in Natchez, Mississippi, 1779-1865
This thesis explicates how freedom, movement, and violence were inextricably linked for free people of color in Natchez, Mississippi from 1779-1865. It considers the relevance that violence or the implicit threat of it--in the form of sexual exploitation, re-enslavement, kidnapping, deportment, poverty, and racial discrimination--exerted on this population. This work centers itself within the field of violence studies.
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Theses
- Authors
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Ribianszky, Nicole S.
- Thesis Advisors
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Berry, Daina R.
- Committee Members
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Dagbovie, Pero G.
Beattie, Peter
Buchanan, NiCole
Windler, Erica
Wheat, David
- Date
- 2011
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History
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Doctoral
- Language
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English
- Pages
- 310 pages
- ISBN
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9781124612706
112461270X
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- https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/M5RB4V