Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Feb 19, 2019

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Winner of Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times 2019 Book Prize in History
Winner of the Southern Association for Women's Historians 2020 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for the best book in southern women's history

Winner of the Southern Historical Association 2020 Charles S. Sydnor Award for the best book in southern history published in an odd-numbered year

Winner of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 2020 Best Book Prize

Winner of the Organization of American Historians 2020 Merle Curti Social History Award for the best book in American social history A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave†'owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave†'owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave†'owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.

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Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser. Book 1) Oct 1, 2018

by Daina Ramey Berry , Leslie M. Harris , Catherine Clinton , Trevor Burnard , Stephanie M. H. Camp , David Doddington , Jim Downs , Thomas A. Foster , Marisa Fuentes , Stephanie Jones-Rogers , Jessica Millward , Bianca Premo , Brenda Stevenson

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In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and repression and as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.

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Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies (Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-slave Societies and Cultures) May 21, 2020

by Camillia Cowling , Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado , Diana Paton , Emily West

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This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children.

Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New England, and including the work of historians based in Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Britain, this collection breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of mothering for the perpetuation of slavery, and the complexity of the experience of motherhood in such circumstances.

This pathbreaking collection, on all aspects of the experience, politics, and representations of motherhood under Atlantic slavery, analyses societies across the Atlantic world, and will be of interest to those studying the history of slavery as well as those studying mothering throughout history. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women’s History Review.

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