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Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women
charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson. While free Black and
white people accused of capital crimes received a hearing, trial, and, if convicted, an opportunity to
appeal, none of these options were available to enslaved people. Conviction was final, and only
the state or owners could spare their accused chattel of punishment by death. For enslaved
women in Virginia, clemency was not uncommon, but Nunley shows why this act ultimately
benefitted owners and punished the accused with sale outside of the state as the best possible
outcome.Demonstrating how crimes, convictions, and clemency functioned within a slave society
that upheld the property interests of white Virginians, Nunley reveals the frequency with which
owners preferred to keep the accused in bondage, which allowed them, behind the veil of
paternalism, to continue to benefit from Black women's labor. This so-called clemency also sought
to rob Black women of the power they exercised when they committed capital crimes. The
testimonies that Nunley has collected and analyzed offer compelling glimpses of the self-identities
forged by Black women as they attempted to resist enslavement and the limits of justice available
to them in the antebellum courtroom.