Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

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Through an examination of more than a few couples who were forced to live in slavery, Rebecca J. Fraser argues that slaves found how one can conduct successful courting relationships. In its focus on the processes of courtship some of the enslaved, this study offers further insight into the meanings that structured intimate lives.

Establishing their courtships, frequently across plantations, the enslaved women and men of antebellum North Carolina worked within and around the slave system to create and handle meaningful personal relationships that were either one of and except for the world of the plantation. They claimed the right to take part in the social events of courtship and, in the process, challenged and disrupted the southern social order in discreet and covert acts of defiance.

Informed by feminist conceptions of gender, sexuality, power, and resistance, the study argues that the courting relationship afforded the enslaved a significant social space through which they could cultivate alternative identities to those which have been imposed upon them in the context of their daily working lives.

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