Reflections on the History and Historians of the black woman's role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence
Reflections on the History and Historians of the black woman's role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence
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对黑人妇女在奴隶社区中的角色的历史和历史学家的反思：被奴役的妇女和亲密伴侣的性暴力
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10.1080/14664658.2018.1429333
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2018
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West E
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以彼得·帕里什（Peter教区）1989年的著作《奴隶制》为灵感：历史和历史学家，以及安吉拉·戴维斯1971年的开创性文章，“对黑人妇女在奴隶社会中的作用的反思，“本书通过对南北战争前被奴役者中亲密伴侣暴力行为的案例研究，从史学和方法论两方面探讨了历史学家撰写被奴役妇女生活时所面临的一些挑战。南由于强奸和性侵犯在过去被定义为由幸存的法律的证据（通常是法庭审判的证词）支持的非自愿性行为，历史学家很难研究奴隶制下的强奸和性暴力（特别是婚内强奸），因为强奸被奴役的妇女或强奸婚姻内的任何妇女没有法律的依据。这篇文章表明，被奴役的妇女认识到，黑人男子既可能是性暴力的肇事者，同时也可能是奴隶制的受害者。它还认为，妇女坚忍地容忍被迫建立亲密关系，有时甚至与解放后强加给她们的“丈夫”在一起。
Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parish’s 1989 book,Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davis’s seminal 1971 article, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because rape and sexual assault have been defined in the past as non-consensual sexual acts supported by surviving legal evidence (generally testimony from court trials), it is hard for historians to research rape and sexual violence under slavery (especially marital rape) as there was no legal standing for the rape of enslaved women or the rape of any woman within marriage. This article suggests enslaved women recognized that black men could both be perpetrators of sexual violenceandsimultaneously be victims of the system of slavery. It also argues women stoically tolerated being forced into intimate relationships, sometimes even staying with “husbands” imposed upon them after emancipation.