Partus and Property: Reading Black Mothering into the Black Radical Tradition
In this talk, Sealey reads Black mothering, in the context of Atlantic slavery and its long afterlife, as central to the terrain of Black oppositional struggle that is theorized under the Black Radical Tradition. By the second half of the seventeenth century, Partus sequitur ventrem (“that which is born follows the womb”) legally codified the