Enslaved women's fugitivity in Louisiana, 1812-1865

这个项目将考察路易斯安那州南北战争前被奴役的妇女如何逃脱奴役。这是对该州被奴役妇女的机构和抵抗的开创性调查，也为探索美国南部被奴役逃亡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，逃亡在男性中比女性更普遍。历史学家将女性逃亡的独特经历归结为更广泛的逃亡叙事，在这些叙事中，离家出走被视为一种男性努力。这个项目挑战了这一范式。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小，只是他们的逃亡模式不同。因此，它重新构建了我们对被奴役妇女抵抗的理解，从而阐明了对妇女激进主义的更广泛的概念。

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.