Johnson, Jessica Marie - Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (2020) Source Information

Johnson, Jessica Marie - Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (2020) Source Information Author: Jessica Marie Johnson Full Title: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Year: 2020 Type: Secondary Source - Black Women's History, Intimacy, Slavery, New Orleans, and the Atlantic World Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: johnson wicked flesh.txt Status Text extracted: Yes - johnson wicked flesh.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) - gender, intimacy, and Atlantic-world pass focused on method, reproductive law, New Orleans, and the afterlives of Saint-Domingue Chapter notes: johnson wicked flesh ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created black femme freedom and partus sequitur ventrem; strengthened women under slavery, sexual violence slavery, free women of color, moc society culture, and moc sources Overview Johnson gives the vault one of its strongest methods for writing Black women back into Atlantic slavery as historical subjects rather than as background to imperial, commercial, or male-centered stories. The book moves from senegambia through the slave trade and into New Orleans, but it also keeps saint domingue present as a transit zone, a legal world shaped by the code noir, and a revolutionary source of refugee movement and political afterlife. Its central claim is not simply that Black women suffered violence, though they did.