Sexual Violence and American Slavery C. K. Li "I can't help but be

"I can't help but be reminded of perfection when perfection was difficult to find

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but also ethics—about which mid-nineteenth-century writers and artists were deeply concerned

a topic that has been considered only briefly until now

Sexual Violence and American Slavery C. K. Li "I can't help but beIt is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of