@article{ref1,
title="Learning slavery at home: garçonnières and adolescent enslavers in rural Louisiana 1806-1861",
journal="Journal of global slavery",
year="2021",
author="Livesey, Andrea",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="31-54",
abstract="Since Stephanie Camp wrote of the &quot;rival&quot; geography that enslaved people created on slave labor plantations, few studies outside the field of architectural history have used the built environment as a source to understand the lives of enslaved people and the mindsets of enslavers in the United States. This article takes adolescent outbuildings in Louisiana (garçonnières) as a starting point to understand how white parents taught and reinforced ideas of dominance over both the environment and enslaved people and simultaneously rooted young white sons to a slave labor plantation &quot;home.&quot; Using architectural evidence, alongside testimony left behind by both enslavers and the enslaved, this article argues that by moving young male enslavers out of the main plantation house and into a separate building, white enslaving parents created a &quot;risk space&quot; for sexual violence within the sexualized geography of the slave labor plantation. The garçonnière, with its privacy and age-and gender-specificity, constituted just one space of increased risk for enslaved women on Louisiana slave labor plantations from a violence that was manipulated within the built environment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2405-8351",
doi="10.1163/2405836X-00601003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00601003"
}