野蛮的奴隶女主人:《英属加勒比地区的惩罚妇女》,1750–1834

T. Burnard, D. Coleman
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1775年,亨利·斯麦斯曼在西印度群岛旅行时创作了一篇题为《克里奥尔美食》或《西印度群岛非洲人的家庭幸福》的小品(出版于1788年)。这幅画描绘了一个穿着优雅的白人女奴隶主主持的鞭打,她站得很高,与她摊开的受害者形成鲜明对比。斯麦斯曼的目的是呈现一幅日常事件的自然主义肖像,揭示了白人妇女的“私人”鞭打与甘蔗田的残酷持续。通过绘画、版画、素描、旅行叙述、日记、废奴主义和说教文学等对残酷的白人奴隶主的视觉和文学表现,作者们表明,白人妇女在奴隶制问题上的作用被“严重低估”,导致了她们和她们所拥有的奴隶的双重抹去。作者得出结论,白人妇女并非奴隶制暴行的无辜旁观者。
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The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834
ABSTRACT In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman slave owner, standing tall in marked contrast to her spreadeagled victim. Smeathman's aim is to present a naturalistic portrait of an everyday event, one which reveals the white woman's “private” flogging as continuous with the cruelty of the cane fields. Drawing upon both visual and literary representations of the cruel white slave mistress, including paintings, prints and drawings as well as travel narratives, diaries, and abolitionist and didactic literature, the authors show that white women's agency regarding slavery has been “profoundly underestimated,” leading to a double erasure of them and the enslaved people they owned. The authors conclude that white women were not innocent bystanders to slavery's brutality.
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