Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Against His Will

Thanks for your insightful commentary. I thought of Leslie Harris's
work when I came across the post earlier this week. She's working on
"Enchained Masculinity: African-American Men of the Slave South," and
her innovative usage of primary sources was quite intriguing a few
years ago when she spoke about her ongoing research in the midwest.
She does incorporate an Atlantic/diaspora vision, which made it
interesting to me, as I was not in Black American / African American
Studies back then. Thanks again.

On Apr 27, 12:40 pm, Lavonda Staples <lrstap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh my GOD!!!!  We are not going to do THIS again are we?
>
> What in the name of everything does homosexuality and sexual assault have to
> do with each other?  Forrealdoh!!!  Professor Marable laboured all of those
> years and gave his life for a work that cannot even be read by those who
> hold Malcolm in highest regard.  Please, please, please, "envy not the
> oppressor nor take upon you any of his ways."  This crap started when that
> nut implied Lincoln was fooling with Herndon.  Then, a historian I admire to
> the utmost, implied that Sojourner Truth was getting it on in orgies because
> she had a home within a free-love colony.  Come on!  Give us some threads we
> can use!  There is absolutely posiively no way to document what two men were
> doing on top of some mountain in Jamaica in the 16th century!!
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Tracy Flemming <cafenegrit...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >http://wanderingcaravan-bronzebuckaroo.blogspot.com/2011/04/against-h...
> > Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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> > Against His Will
>
> > During the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning in Brazil and then in
> > the Caribbean and the United States, it is estimated that an uncertain
> > number of male African slaves did engaged in same-sex activity within
> > the slave population.   The reasons why are diverse.  A shortage of
> > women and being from a particular environment not prejudiced against
> > it for one reason or another. At the same time, enslaved African
> > men---- and women---- could be subjected to sexual violence from a
> > slaveholder.
>
> > Most assaults are undocumented or went unreported.  The actual number
> > inflicted unwillingly on men both straight and among those naturally
> > inclined toward same-sex affections may never be fully known but only
> > estimated.  Confessed to Inquisition authorities in the the early
> > 1590s, the owner of a sugar plantation in Brazil said he violated two
> > male slaves and one "free" black servant.
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