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