Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Greek & Roman kick off a series of

kick off a series of painful events: the deaths of loved ones both old and young

* A new preface with 'stories from the road' as a result of Rogers's two year book tour in support of the first edition

"A truly great translation

untangle sociopolitical constraints

and divinity

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Greek & Roman kick off a series ofThe story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of