Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Rape: Slave Rape:

Types: Rape:
SLAVE RAPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Nigerian History

[Info] Lovejoy, Paul E. »Concubinage in the Sokoto Caliphate (1804-1903).« Slavery & Abolition 11 (1990): 158-189.


[Site] A m e r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Brazilian History

[Info] Chalhoub, Sidney. »The Legacy of Slavery: Tales of Gender and Racial Violence in Machado de Assis.« Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis. Edited by Lamonte Aido et al. New York 2016: 55-69.

[Info] Nequete, Lenine. »As relações entre senhor e escravo no século XIX. O caso da escrava Honorata.« Revista brasileira de estudos políticos No. 53 (1981): 223-248.


[Site] Caribbean History

[Info] Donoghue, Eddie. Black Women/White Men: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Slaves in the Danish West Indies. Trenton 2002.

[Info] Halberg, Rikke L. Dansk Vestindien på museum: Kontinuitet og brud i udstillingspraksis 1888-2013. Examensarbete, Lunds universitet, 2016.

[Info] Lightfoot, Natasha J. »“Insisting upon Her Being Free”: Plassy Lawrence’s Unstable Claim to Liberty.« 134th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2020.


[Site] Colombian History

Cases: Real Victims: Maía Lucas Domínguez;

[Site] Cuban History

[Info] Ellis, Robert R. »Reading through the Veil of Juan Francisco Manzano: From Homoerotic Violence to the Dream of a Homoracial Bond.« PMLA 113 (1998): 422-435.


[Site] U.S. History

Cases: Real Victims: Celia, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Luke, Peggy, Patsey; Representations: Art: Faith Ringgold; Literary Texts: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”)

[Info] Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham 2012.

[Info] Allain, Jacqueline M. »Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis.« Student Pulse 5 (2013).

[Info] Anderson, Cornelia. »Sexuelle Ausbeutung von Sklavinnen im Alten Süden.« Unfreiheit und Sexualität von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Josef Fischer et al. Hildesheim 2010: 141-161.

[Info] Baptist, Edward E. »"Cuffy," "Fancy Maids," and "One-Eyed Men": Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States.« American Historical Review 106 (2001): 1619-1650.

[Info] Baptist, Edward E. »"Cuffy," "Fancy Maids," and "One-Eyed Men": Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States.« The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. Edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven 2005: 165-202.

[Info] Block, Sharon. »Coercing Sex within the Bonds of Servitude, 1720-1820.« 109th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Chicago 1995.

[Info] Clarey, Chelsea. The Metonym of Edenic Masculinity: Depictions of Male-Male Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Property. M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, 2015.

[Info] Cornelius-Diallo, Alexandra. »They had no need to inquire: The Public Nature of Enslaved Women's Abuse and Resistance.« 92nd Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Charlotte 2007.

[Info] Davis, Adrienne D. »Slavery and the Roots of Sexual Harassment.« Directions in Sexual Harassment Law. Edited by Catherine A. MacKinnon et al. New Haven 2004: 457-478.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. Navigating the Sad Epoch: Sexual Exploitation within Enslaved Communities in the Antebellum South. M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. »Terms of Engagement: Considering Enslaved Women's perceptions of consent and agency in the midst of sexually coercive relationships.« 97th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History. Pittsburgh 2012.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. »Enslaved Women, Sexual Exploitation Consciousness, and Its Impact on Marriage, Sexual Relations, and Motherhood.« Triangle Working Group in Feminism and History, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill 2014.

[Info] Feinstein, Rachel A. When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery. New York 2019.

[Info] Foster, Frances. »"In Respect to Females...": Differences in the Portrayals of Women by Male and Female Narrators.« Black American Literature Forum 15 (1981): 66-70.

[Info] Foster, Frances. Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives. Madison 1994.

[Info] Foster, Thomas A. »The Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American Slavery.« Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (2011): 445-464.

[Info] Foster, Thomas A. »The Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American Slavery.« Sexuality & Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas. Edited by Daina R. Berry et al. Athens 2018: 124-144.

[Info] Foster, Thomas A. Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men. Athens 2019.

[Info] Fuleihan, Zeena Y. »The Fancy Girl Episteme: Tracking the Legacy of Master-Slave Rape in the Evolution of the Tragic Mulatto Trope« The Comparatist 46 (2022): 124-133.

[Info] Hilde, Libra R. Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill 2020.

[Info] Hobson, Janell. »The Rape of Harriet Tubman.« Meridians 12 (2014): 161-168.

[Info] Holmes, Caren M. »The Colonial Roots of the Racial Fetishization of Black Women.« Black & Gold 2 (2016).

[Info] Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. »Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery.« Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender 2013-2014. Chicago 2013.

[Info] Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. »Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery: White Women, the Slave Market and Enslaved Women's Sexualized Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century South.« Unleashing the Black Erotic: Gender and Sexuality-Passion, Power and Praxis. Charleston 2013.

[Info] Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. »Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery: White Women, the Slave Market and Enslaved People’s Sexualized Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century South.« Emerging Perspectives on Race and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century United States. University Park 2013.

[Info] Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. »Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery: Free Women, the Slave Market and Enslaved Women’s Sexualized Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century South.« 128th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington, DC 2013.

[Info] Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. »Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery: Free Women, the Slave Market and Enslaved People's Sexualized Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century South.« 81st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Little Rock 2015.

[Info] Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. »Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery: White Women, the Slave Market and Enslaved People's Sexualized Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century South.« Sexuality & Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas. Edited by Daina R. Berry et al. Athens 2018: 109-123.

[Info] LaFleur, Greta. »Whither Rape in the History of Sexuality? Thinking Sex alongside Slavery’s Normative Violence.« Journal of the History of Sexuality 33 (2024): 153-187.

[Info] Livesey, Andrea. Sexual violence in the slaveholding regimes of Louisiana and Texas: Patterns of abuse in Black testimony. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015.

[Info] Livesey, Andrea. »Conceived in Violence: Enslaved Mothers and Children Born of Rape in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana.« Slavery & Abolition 38 (2017): 373-391.

[Info] Neale, Caherine S. Slaves, Freedpeople, And The University Of Virginia. B.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Neely, Caroline E. "Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community. M.A. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000.

[Info] Roberts, Dorothy. »The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality.« Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacy. Waltham 2006.

[Info] Roberts, Dorothy. »The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality.« Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies. Edited by Bernadette J. Brooten. New York 2010: 41-60.

[Info] Rothman, Joshua D. "Notorious in the Neighborhood": Interracial Sex and Interracial Families in Early National and Antebellum Virginia. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2000.

[Info] Smithers, Gregory D. Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. Gainesville 2012.

[Info] Wartberg, Lynn C. “They was Things Past the Tellin’”: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project. M.A. Thesis, University of New Orleans, 2012.

[Info] Wilkins, Landon S. Deflowering History: An Examination of Rape, Slavery, and the University of Virginia. Bachelor Thesis, University of Virginia, 2016.


[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Turkish History

[Info] Zifli, Madeline C. Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference. New York 2010.