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Fuentes, Marisa J. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
This book explores the perspectives of enslaved women in the urban Caribbean, specifically Bridgetown, Barbados, in the eighteenth century. Each chapter focuses on an enslaved woman in the Caribbean and uses archival fragments to discuss systems of enslavement in Barbados. The text interrogates how knowledge is created through archives and historical accounts. This work engages with topics of archives, race, gender, and sexuality.
