White Masculinity and Sexual Violence against Enslaved Black Women

Feinstein, Rachel A.

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“…The documents were dehumanising not only in using accounting technologies to put a value on human life (see also , but also in their erasure of women. Consistent with other studies of the era (Feinstein, 2019;Gaspar and Hine, 1996;McLaurin, 2021), these women who should have had a legally supported essential interest in the well-being of their children were simply 'bodies' from which their 'increase' became future economic resources for those in power, including the members of the Overseers of the Poor, and the Montgomery Township town council members who seemed to make decisions with utter disregard for the human lives at stake. This power structure in the Township perpetuated the ability of 'leading' white residents to enact complete control over the lives of the Black children in question.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Although she killed him in the process of resisting yet another sexual assault, the court ruled that she had no right to self-defence, that she was his property, and that her enslaver had the right to assault her with impunity. Celia was hanged for murder (see also Feinstein, 2019). Warren (2017) documented the everyday lives of New Englanders in the seventeenth century at the beginnings of chattel slavery and, in particular, wrote about how African women's bodies, through their ability to give birth to additional enslaved bodies, were used to enrich the budding colonies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It follows the pattern found in all these dehumanising official records: The Black children were referred to by first name only; the enslavers' full names were given; and the mothers' names were completely erased. This erasure of the mothers' humanity is one more example of the callous denial of basic human rights to enslaved women (see also Feinstein, 2019;Gaspar and Hine, 1996).…”

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“…By the 1860s, the total number of enslaved people in the United States had mushroomed to over four million (Coates, 2014). While other slave societiesincluding the largest, Brazilcontinued to import human labour, the vast majority of the enslaved people in the United States were the children of enslaved African women and their female descendants, who had no rights over their own bodies nor those of their children (Bergad, 2016: 185;Feinstein, 2019;Gaspar and Hine, 1996;Gordon-Reed, 2008;McLaurin, 2021;Stevenson, 2013).…”

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A ‘disguised scheme for compensated emancipation’: Accounting for gradual abolition in nineteenth century New Jersey

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Hammond

2023

Accounting History

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Contributing to the expanding examination of the accounting policies that facilitated slavery's persistence in the United States, this study examines the Gradual Abolition Act of 1804 of New Jersey, the last Northern state to emancipate enslaved humans. New Jersey's Act included a provision for payments to white ‘masters’ for the care of children born after the Act to mothers who were – and remained – enslaved. These payments were considered a form of ‘compensated abolition’ and were included in the Act because prior efforts to persuade enslavers in New Jersey to agree to an eventual end to human enslavement had failed. With a focus on the children in Montgomery Township, this article investigates how the State of New Jersey disbursed the funds for this provision, and expands on previous research on the role of accounting for slavery by examining the crucial role states – including Northern states that are often overlooked in studies of United States' slavery – played in perpetuating this brutal system.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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“…Both racial stereotypes have historical roots in the United States that function to "other" Black women, defining them as different and less than white women (Collins, 2008;West, 1995). The stereotype of the Jezebel characterizes Black women as overly sexual (Simms, 2001), which historically excused the rape of enslaved Black women by white male slave owners, and continues to excuse sexual assault of Black women through victim-blaming today (Feinstein, 2018;Marable, 1983;Tillman et al, 2010). The Jezebel stereotype is particularly applicable to young Black girls today, who are framed as adults while still children and teens, excusing their abuse, sexual, and otherwise (Epstein et al, 2017).…”

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Small Social Networks and Disclosure After Campus Sexual Assault: How Race and School Size Can Limit Student Disclosure

Ratajczak

2022

Crime & Delinquency

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Barriers to disclosing and help seeking after campus sexual assault differ across campuses and students. Social network theory suggests that network type impacts disclosure and help-seeking behaviors, where high risk for network loss decreases disclosure and help-seeking behavior. This study, using qualitative interviews with 23 students from two universities, finds all students were concerned about losing friends after disclosure, but this was more salient for students with small social networks. Small social networks resulted from small campus size and racial minority status in a predominately white institution (PWI). The negative impacts of network loss were greatest for students of color who were unable to replace race-based networks, whereas white students were able to rebuild networks, even on a small campus.

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America’s First Memorial Honoring Survivors of Sexual Violence

Sardina

Fox

2022

J Interpers Violence

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Over the past two decades, America taken part of a broader global trend of “memorial mania” in which memorials dedicated to remembering injustice have exploded into public space. Memorials that facilitate the centering of marginalized narratives of violence hold significant power for social change. This article focuses on one such space: The Survivors Memorial in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Survivors Memorial opened in October 2020 and is the first public memorial honoring survivors of sexual violence. Despite the progress of the anti-rape and feminist movements as well as a variety of legal interventions designed to address sexual violence and empower, many survivors are left without a sense of justice or institutional or community recognition. Drawing on 21 in-depth, qualitative interviews with individuals involved in all aspects of the memorial project, this article documents how one community mobilized to create a space for survivors whose voices are often overlooked, disbelieved and silenced by the criminal justice system, practitioners, and communities. In focusing on how participants narrate the significance and meaning of the Survivors Memorial, this article uncovers how social, political, and local circumstances coalesced to make the Memorial possible. These factors include local leadership, the prevalence of sexual violence, the unique structure of the Minneapolis park structure, and the rise of the #MeToo movement. Interviews illuminate that participants worked to intentionally construct the Memorial as an accessible and visible space that centers on providing all sexual violence survivors with public acknowledgment of their experiences, while simultaneously engaging community members in dialogs about sexual violence, ultimately, laying the foundation for sexual violence prevention efforts.

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White Masculinity and Sexual Violence against Enslaved Black Women

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A ‘disguised scheme for compensated emancipation’: Accounting for gradual abolition in nineteenth century New Jersey

A ‘disguised scheme for compensated emancipation’: Accounting for gradual abolition in nineteenth century New Jersey

Small Social Networks and Disclosure After Campus Sexual Assault: How Race and School Size Can Limit Student Disclosure

America’s First Memorial Honoring Survivors of Sexual Violence

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