The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors

2016-03-14editorialSouls729 citationsclosed

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Colonialism, slavery, and trade Race, History, and American Society Feminist Theory and Gender Studies

Abstract

The slave ship is a womb/abyss. The plantation is the belly of the world. Partus sequitur ventrem—the child follows the belly. The master dreams of future increase. The modern world follows the bel...

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