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The Lives of Enslaved Women
The question: How much autonomy did slave women have?
Primary Documents Cornelia, Rose William, Fannie Moore, slave letters
Christie Farnhan Essay Don’t use the conjugal family modelto analyze slave families
Christie Farnhan Essay An African consanguinealmodel influenced black families on  American plantations
Christie Farnhan Essay Many slave women were self-reliant and chose to lead their own households or to lead the family in double-headed households
Thelma Jennings essay Sometimes it was profitable to treat women as genderless.
Thelma Jennings essay Sometimes it wasn’t.
Thelma Jennings essay The ways a woman slave could interact with her family and children were controlled by the patriarch, but women fought back where they could.
Summary The first essay is academic synthesis; the second is primary level synthesis.“Two waves” of interpretation – 1950’s lack of control, 1970’s familial, cultural, and religious life
Our conclusion Enslaved women may have exercised some control of their lives through marriage and family choices, but slave owners and cultural practices left little room for women to exercise autonomy over family life.
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