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Lamonte Aidoo

Associate Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Romance Studies, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
111 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Genealogies of horror: three stories of slave-women, motherhood, and murder in the Americas

Journal article African and Black Diaspora · January 2, 2020 This article examines three cases of infanticide committed by slave women in the Americas–Margaret Garner (1856) of Ohio, Ignácia (1868) of Paraná, Brazil, and Justina (1878) of Rio de Janeiro. The article argues that each woman sought to dislodge their ow ... Full text Cite