Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Free Audiobook Download by Jessica Marie Johnson

A not so hidden truth of black women's lives and history has been the constant battle for intimacy and freedom. In her book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, Jessica Marie Johnson provides a detailed account of how enslaved black women fought for their sexual autonomy on the plantations by both challenging the power structures that limited them and creating outlets for intimacy when those avenues would not be found.

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World is an award-winning historical narrative that discusses the personal and political aspects of sex and intimacy. The book makes a case for the importance of black women's eroticism, exploring how sexual practices have been used throughout history to control black women. This analysis is done through a variety of topics, including nineteenth-century antebellum America, feminism in twentieth-century France, rape on a global scale, and the role of shame in today's society.

The Atlantic World is a world that helped to create today's North American continent which includes the United States and Canada. The Atlantic World was created by European invaders, who brought with them the enslavement of African people all over the world. One great example of this is the enslavement of Black women in 1619 and throughout what became known as Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Massachusetts. However, other cultures were also included such as Native Americans and Canadians. These two groups were most likely enslaved because they were considered enemies of Europe and their communities would not accept their presence on their land.

This book is a deep examinations of one of the most complicated and difficult topics in black women's history, intimacy. It has been a topic neglected by contemporary scholars and made taboo by many. The author Jessica Marie Johnson portrays how intimate freedom ties into blackness through the narratives of three Atlantic world characters including: Ann Eliza Young, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.

This audiobook covers the history of black women in America and the role of slavery, sexual violence, and intimacy. It includes stories of how blacks were used as objects like “a commodity to be traded or a customer to be won” by white traders. The second section covers how every time African-Americans found themselves outside the boundaries set for them, they faced violence from whites. In this section, Johnson argues that black liberation became possible when African-Americans began to talk about sexuality in their own way, free from the racialized power dynamic between white men and black women.

This book by Jessica Marie Johnson examines the ways that black women have navigated intimacy within the "African Atlantic." Using personal narratives and historical archives, Johnson argues that intimate relations was a particularly threatening space for black women in the era of slavery and racial capitalism.