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Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

Contesting Slave Masculinity demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South. Rather than automatically support one another against an emasculatory white society, enslaved people articulated ideas about masculinity through comparisons between men and different forms of manhood were held up for judgment. The tragedies and repressions of slavery were both personal and political: the choices enslaved people made and the identities they created were conditioned by, though not reducible to, the world in which they lived. An examination of the relational framework in which enslaved people crafted identities, and not purely in opposition to white social and cultural norms, demonstrates the fluidity of gender as a social and cultural phenomenon, the limitations to any monolithic model of black solidarity, and the connections between diverse strategies of survival to gendered values and identities.