A review by ladyeremite
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson

3.0

This book's archival research into the lives of black women from the comptoirs of Senegambia to the quartiers of New Orleans was fascinating. Beyond the very important main emphasis on the key role played by women in brokering trade through their centrality in kinship networks, and its moral emphasis on black freedom, I found the arguments to be very vague to the point of nonsensical and often couched in jargon that was insufficiently explained in the context of the book (even if I am generally familiar with it from other works).