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Through Feminist Eyes Speaker Series: Overwork, Sexual Exploitation, and Broken Families
(Diversity)
Contrary to so many of our movie images, no form of US slavery was benign, either in slaveholder intent or in its impacts on the oppressed people. Appalachian ex-slaves pointed to destruction of their families as the most long-lasting impact of enslavement on their lives and their dignities. Drawing upon two decades of her research, Dunaway will explore the practices of Appalachian slaveholders that broke black families and threatened the survival of enslaved women.
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