Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

10 reviews

princxporkchop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Slavery, Child abuse, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Blood, Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Torture, Miscarriage, Racism, Ableism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Infertility, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Confinement, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Gore

rapunzelholly's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual violence and Violence

wolf013's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, War, Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, and Miscarriage

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Infidelity, and Slavery

hunkydory's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: War, Sexual violence, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Trafficking

adrigodebison's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

This book should be required reading. Not only does it have vast amounts of information and documentation, but it is really well written. 
(I would also suggest looking at the content warnings)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Slavery, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Genocide, Racial slurs, and Torture

Moderate: Rape

c100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Racism, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Genocide, and Physical abuse

Moderate: War and Rape

haileybones's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Racism

iygatac_reads's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

Jones-Rogers pulls on various sources, including interviews with formally enslaved people that were conducted as part of the Works Progress Administration, court documents, and contemporary print sources, to illuminate the role that white women played in slavery. Her investigation reveals the full extent to which slave-owning women were active participants in the slave economy. These women were also no less brutal than white men in the way they interacted with the enslaved people they owned or came into contact with.

I listened to this on audiobook since it was available to borrow on Libby and I wasn't sure when I'd get a chance to read a physical copy. I learned a lot, but I feel this is one that I have to get a physical copy of so I can re-read it and make highlights and notes. There is a lot that's covered in this book.

While listening to this history, I was making connections to the present day - to how we can trace a thread from slave-owning white women and their ideas of, sense of entitlement to, and actions toward enslaved persons and Africans in general to present-day white women and the way they relate to and speak about Black people. 

Content warnings and notes: When quoting interviewees and other sources, the n-word and other slurs are written out in the text/read out in the audiobook

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Sexual violence

Content warnings - everything to do with slavery. The n-word is written out (spoken in the audiobook), along with other slurs, since quotes from former enslaved people and others are used in full.

maria_egnatz_alexander's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

This was a challenging book to get through. I’m a white women who has read lots of books regarding racial disparity before. The testimonies and information are presented very matter-of-fact which really emphasized the calloused business nature slavery was given. There were many times I turned off the audiobook because even listening to it felt disrespectful. I think it’s important to know the reality of the past do we understand how we arrived at our present. That said, I don’t know when it would ever feel appropriate to hear the things white Americans have forced on Black people as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Incest, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship