Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

By: Eaves, Shannon

It 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 C. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469678802
• ISBN13: 9781469678801
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"