Ebook: Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example—the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved andthe opera Margaret Garner—as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States.

Contributors are Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, Mary E. Frederickson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Carolyn Mazloomi, Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Catherine Roma, Huda Seif, S. Pearl Sharp, Raquel Luciana de Souza, Jolene Smith, Veta Tucker, Delores M. Walters, Diana Williams, and Kristine Yohe.
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Cover Title Page Contents List of Figures Foreword Preface Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDERED RESISTANCE 1. A Mother's Arithmetic: Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom 2. Coerced but Not Subdued: The Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery 3. Secret Agents: Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds 4. Enslaved Women's Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" and Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Garner 5. Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance? PART II: GLOBAL SLAVERY, HEALING, AND NEW VISIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 6. "Freedom Just Might be Possible": Suraj Kali's Moment of Decision 7. Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance: Experiences from Southern Yemen 8. Resurrecting Chica da Silva: Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture 9. The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence 10. Art and Memory: Healing Body, Mind, Spirit: A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma Contributors Index|

International AAHGS Book Award, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), 2019. — Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
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Mary E. Frederickson is a professor of history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and a visiting professor in The Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University. Delores M. Walters is a cultural anthropologist who directs a Health Education Center at the University of Rhode Island.