Cover

Title Page

Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner

PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDERED RESISTANCE

1. A Mother's Arithmetic: Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom

2. Coerced but Not Subdued: The Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery

3. Secret Agents: Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds

4. Enslaved Women's Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" and Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Garner

5. Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance?

PART II: GLOBAL SLAVERY, HEALING, AND NEW VISIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

6. "Freedom Just Might be Possible": Suraj Kali's Moment of Decision

7. Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance: Experiences from Southern Yemen

8. Resurrecting Chica da Silva: Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture

9. The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence

10. Art and Memory: Healing Body, Mind, Spirit: A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma

Contributors

Index