Beyond Slavery Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies

Introduction--Bernadette J. Brooten * PART I: A PRAYER * Prayer for my daughter (Poem)--Nancy Rawles * PART II: OVERCOMING SLAVERY’S LEGACIES IN THE UNITED STATES * The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women, and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality--Dorothy Roberts * From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public-Policy Formation--Emilie M. Townes * From Plantations to Prisons: African American Women Prisoners in the United States--Ellen Barry * PART III: OVERCOMING SLAVERY’S LEGACIES IN RELIGIOUS LAW * The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage--Gail Labovitz * Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam--Kecia Ali * PART IV: ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE PROBLEM * “She Shall Not Go Free as Male Slaves Do”: Developing Views About Slavery and Gender in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible--David P. Wright * Early Christianity, Slavery, and Women’s Bodies--Jennifer A. Glancy * Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination--Sheila Briggs * PART V: WHY SEXUAL ETHICS NEEDS HISTORY * “As If She Were His Wife”: Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Late Medieval Spain--Debra Blumenthal * Love, Sex, Slavery, and Sally Hemings--Mia Bay * Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond--Catherine Clinton * PART VI: SHOULD THE BIBLE FORM THE BASIS OF PUBLIC POLICY * The Bible, Slavery, and the Problem of Authority--Sylvester A. Johnson * The "Purity of the White Woman, Not the Purity of the Negro Woman": The Contemporary Legacies of Historical Laws Against Interracial Marriage--Fay Botham * PART VII: THE STORIES WE TELL * Mammy’s Daughters; Or, the DNA of a Feminist Sexual Ethics--Frances Smith Foster * PART VIII: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE * Enslaved Black Women: A Theology of Justice and Reparations--Dwight N. Hopkins * PART IX: A MEDITATION * A Visit from the Old Mistress (Poem)--Florence Ladd * Epilogue--Mende Nazer, with Bernadette J. Brooten

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