The souls of womenfolk : the religious cultures of enslaved women in the Lower South /
In The souls of womenfolk, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh argues that woman-gendered cosmologies and experiences from the upper Guinea coast played a distinct role in shaping the religious consciousness and practices of enslaved communities in the lower South, and that this process took place concurrently...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Of the faith of the mothers
- Georgia genesis: the birth of the enslaved female soul
- Womb re/membrances: the moral dimensions of enslaved motherhood
- Sex, body, and soul: sexual ethics and social values among the enslaved
- The birth and death of souls: enslaved women and ritual
- Spirit bodies and feminine souls: women, power, and the sacred imagination
- When souls gather: women and gendered performance in religious spaces
- Conclusion: Gendering the "religion of the slave."