Saltwater Insurgency: Drowning and Gender during the Middle Passage
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2023-06-14
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This article is dedicated to resurfacing an enslaved female whom we encounter, drowning, in a witness testimony of the crew of the Dutch slave ship Zanggodin. To unfold a reading beyond the transcription of her commodified death, I investigate the five localities that conditioned her inscription into history: the archive, the law, the ship, the ocean, and the womb. Traveling through these localities, I disclose, on the one hand, the historical violence against black females through the transatlantic slave trade system and, on the other, the excess black females proved to be to this very system. Excessive thus, I propose that the black female lineage provides an alternative to white, patriarchic systems of relation.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen