The Enslaved Family: Reflections on Resistance
Family was essential to a bondperson’s life and resistance was crucial to their familial endeavors. Family not only meant love, support, procreation, socialization, protection, and reverence. Its humanizing impulse also meant resistance. Resistance—to dehumanization, ill treatment, emasculation and defeminization, infantilization, suppression of one’s culture, destruction of one’s family, and the undermining of family roles—was a fundamental ethos located not only within the individual, but also within enslaved families and communities.
Date:
2 November 2023, 17:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue:
History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details:
Gerry Martin Room
Speaker:
Brenda Stevenson (Oxford)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
2023 Black History Month events
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
