Black women have always found ways to resist in the midst of a savage system of slavery and oppression that used intimacy as a means of undermining freedom.
Surrounded by this hostile social order, what were some of the ways Black women carved out for themselves moments of freedom & empowerment? Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Professor Jessica Marie Johnson of Johns Hopkins University to discuss her award winning book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.’
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