Description
Product ID: | 9781787386976 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Many Black Women of this Fortress |
Subtitle: | Graca, Monica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire |
Authors: | Author: Kwasi Konadu |
Page Count: | 200 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Gender studies: women, Black & Asian studies, Portugal, Africa |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to grasp the complexities of modernity's gestation. This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today''s world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to grasp the complexities of modernity''s gestation. |
Imprint Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
Publisher Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-07-28 |