Black Women’s Itinerancy

This book studies the lives of three eighteenth and early nineteenth-century enslaved women – Sally Hemings, Ona Judge, Caroline Branham – and how they are represented at US (plantation) museums/heritage sites as well as in artistic practices. Drawing on Black feminist critics’, historians of slavery’s, descendant organizations’ insights, it reflects on the potential to challenge dominant historical legacies by centering Black (enslaved) women.