Konadu Kwasi
Konadu Kwasi - Many Black Women Of This Fortress Graca Monica And Adwoa Three Enslaved Women Of Portugals African Empire - Paperback
Konadu Kwasi - Many Black Women Of This Fortress Graca Monica And Adwoa Three Enslaved Women Of Portugals African Empire - Paperback
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Description: 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 Gra a M nica 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.
Title: Many Black Women Of This Fortress Graca Monica And Adwoa Three Enslaved Women Of Portugals African Empire
Author(s): Konadu Kwasi
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787386976
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2022
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: 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 Gra a M nica 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.
Title: Many Black Women Of This Fortress Graca Monica And Adwoa Three Enslaved Women Of Portugals African Empire
Author(s): Konadu Kwasi
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787386976
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2022
Category: Black & Asian Studies
