Beyond Slavery Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A Prayer Prayer for my Daughter ..........33 2. Overcoming slavery`s Leagacies in the United States The paradox of Silence and Display : Sexual Violation of Enslaved women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black female Sexuality ............41 From Mammy to welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public- Policy formation ...........61 From plantation to prisons : African American Women prisoners in the US...........75 3. Overcoming Slavery`s Legacies in Religious Law The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage .........91 Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam ...........107 4. Ancient Origins of the Problem She shall not go Free as Male slaves do : Developing views about Slavery and Gender in the Laws of the Hebrews bible ...............125 Early Christianity, Slavery, and Women`s Bodies .........143 Gender, Slavery, and and Technology: The shaping of the Early christian moral Imagination .............159 5. Why Sexual Ethics Needs History As if she were his Wife : Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Late Medieval Spain .........179 Love, Sex, Slavery and sally Hemings ......191 Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond ..........213 6. Should the bible form the basis of Public Policy The bible, Slavery, and the Problem of Authority ........231 The Purity of the White woman, Not the purity of the negro woman ........249 7. The stories we Tell Mammy`s Daughters, or the DNA of a Feminist Sexual Ethics ......267 8. Restorative Justice Enslaved Black women : A Theology of Justice and Reparations .........287 9. A meditation A visit from the old Mistress .....................307