Enslaved women's fugitivity in Louisiana, 1812-1865

这个项目将研究内战前路易斯安那州被奴役妇女逃离束缚的过程。对该州被奴役妇女的代理和抵抗的开创性调查，也为探索美国南方被奴役逃亡的性别动态的令人兴奋的新研究提供了独特的贡献。在逃亡广告或逃亡奴隶广告中，被奴役的男性占多数，这使得奴隶制学者得出结论，逃亡在男性中比在女性中更普遍。历史学家将女性逃亡的独特经历纳入了更广泛的逃亡叙事中，逃跑被视为男性的行为。这个项目挑战了这种模式。它认为，被奴役的女性试图逃跑的可能性并不低于被奴役的男性，只是她们的逃跑模式不同。因此，它重塑了我们对被奴役妇女抵抗的理解，以一种阐明妇女激进主义更广泛概念的方式。

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.