Title
The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times
Date of Award
Summer 8-1-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Carol Marsh-Lockett
Second Advisor
Elizabeth West
Third Advisor
Nancy Chase
Abstract
This thesis explores the psycho-socio-cultural dynamics that surrounded black womanhood in antebellumGeorgia. The goal is twofold: first, to examine how slave narratives, testimonies, and interviews depicted the plight of enslaved black women through a womanist lens and second, to discover what political and socio-cultural constructions enabled the severe slave institution that was endemic toGeorgia. Womanist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and trauma theory are addressed in this study to focus on antebellum or pre-Civil WarGeorgia.
Recommended Citation
Blasingame, Dionne, "The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times" (2012). English Theses. Paper 138.
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/138