Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Author: Nikki M. Taylor (Howard University, Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 250 From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed...Read more