Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Greek & Roman in the pro-cess pushing long-buried

in the pro-cess pushing long-buried memories

a kind of circus of the soul

Violet must also confront personal challenges and tragedies

untangle sociopolitical constraints

kick off a series of painful events: the deaths of loved ones both old and young

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Greek & Roman in the pro-cess pushing long-buriedThe story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of