African American History Seminar
“Increasing her Stock”: Two Harriets and the Louisiana Borderlands
16 January 2020.Thursday, 5:15PM - 7:30PM
Rashauna Johnson, Dartmouth College
Comment: Jen Manion, Amherst College

This paper uses the sexual biographies of two enslaved women, both named Harriet, in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes to explore the workings of intimacy and empire in the plantation South during its transition from borderlands to hub of King Cotton.
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