Enslaved women's fugitivity in Louisiana, 1812-1865

路易斯安那州被奴役妇女的逃亡，1812 年至 1865 年

• 批准号: 2885036
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885036
• 关键词: Enslaved; women; fugitivity; Louisiana; 1812

This project will examine enslaved women's escape from bondage in antebellum Louisiana. Apioneering investigation of the agency and resistance of enslaved women in the state, it alsooffers a unique contribution to exciting new studies exploring the gendered dynamics of enslavedfugitivity in the American South. The preponderance of enslaved men among advertised fugitivity,or fugitive slave advertisements, has led slavery scholars to conclude that fugitivity was moreprevalent among men than women. Historians have subsumed the distinct experiences of femalerunaways into broader narratives of flight, where running-away is treated as a masculineendeavour. This project challenges this paradigm. It argues that enslaved women were no lesslikely than enslaved men to attempt escape, but simply that their fugitivity patterns were different.As such, it reframes our understanding of enslaved women's resistance in a way that illuminateswider conceptions of women's activism.

这个项目将研究南北战争前路易斯安那州被奴役妇女摆脱奴役的情况。作为对该州被奴役妇女的代理和抵抗的开创性调查，它也为探索美国南部被奴役逃亡者的性别动态的令人兴奋的新研究做出了独特的贡献。在逃亡广告中，被奴役的男性占绝大多数，这使得奴隶制学者得出结论，逃亡在男性中比女性更普遍。历史学家将女性离家出走的独特经历纳入了更广泛的关于逃跑的叙述中，逃跑被视为男性的努力。这个项目挑战了这种模式。它认为，被奴役的妇女试图逃跑的可能性并不比被奴役的男子少，而只是她们逃跑的模式不同。因此，它重新构建了我们对被奴役的妇女的抵抗的理解，以一种阐明更广泛的妇女行动主义概念的方式。