WGST 50: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (Montgomery)

"Derailed:  The Troubling Allure of the Underground Railroad"

(The New Yorker)

Freedom Trails

(National Review)

The Underground Railroad: a Novel

(Christian Century

Ripping the Veil

(New Republic)

The Underground Railroad: Luminous, Furious, and Wildly Inventive

(The Guardian)

To find more reviews/articles about the novel, use the following database.  Just do a seaerch on:

The Underground Railroad and Colson Whitehead

A Google search using the keywords Slavery and Objectification brought back this article?

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Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery

To find research articles on the topic of women and slavery in America, use the following databases:

Slavery, Sexuality, and Religion (The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, Brandeis University) (web site)

Darlene Clark Hine. “Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex.” In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990, 657–666. First published in The Western Journal of Black Studies 3 (1979) 123–127. (book chapter)

Herbert G. Gutman “Marital and Sexual Norms Among Slave Women.” In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990, 545–557. (book chapter)

More than Chattel:  Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (e-book)

Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (book)

Demonic Grounds:  Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (e-book)

Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America (book)

Ar'N't I A Woman? :  Female Slaves in the Plantation South  (book)

Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner (e-book)

Women and Slavery in America:  A Documentary History