… just complicit in the systemic violence against enslaved people. The wealth and status of slaveholding women rested … of law and custom. Told from the perspective of enslaved people themselves, the book shatters any remaining sense that … D. Morgan in 1999; David Eltis, 2000; David Blight, 2001; Robert Harms and John Stauffer, 2002; Seymour Drescher and …