Rethinking Rufus
Rethinking Rufus Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also…
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Rethinking Rufus
Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically and in a wide variety of forms, including physical assault, sexual coercion, and other intimate violations.To tell the story of men such as Rufus--who was coerced into a sexual union with an enslaved woman, Rose, whose resistance of this union is widely celebrated--historian Thomas A. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of men.
Foster interrogates a range of sources on slavery: early American newspapers, court records, enslavers' journals, abolitionist literature, the testimony of formerly enslaved people collected in autobiographies and in