Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of…
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free.These women refused to labour like slaves.
These were the pioneers of free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer identities, and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous, even pathological, at the dawn of the twentieth century, though they set the pattern for the world to co