1940s: (Women’s Responses Recalled Acts of Refusal During Chattel Enslavement — Women’s Responses to Their Dispossession Recalling the Well-Known Acts of Ref…

1940s: (Women’s Responses Recalled Acts of Refusal During Chattel Enslavement — Women’s Responses to Their Dispossession Recalling the Well-Known Acts of Refusal by Women During Periods of Chattel Enslavement Including Suicide Infanticide and the Rerouting of Kinship and Sexual Relationships Toward Their Own Meanings of Freedom — the Women’s Archive Also Recalling the Limits of the Revolutionary Moment Challenging the Historical Inevitability of 1946 and Reminding Us That Possibilities of Different Outcomes for Women Were Constantly Within Reach): Women’s responses to their dispossession recalled the well-known acts of refusal by women during periods of chattel enslavement, including suicide, infanticide, and the rerouting of kinship and sexual relationships toward their own meanings of freedom. The women’s archive also recalls the limits of the revolutionary moment, challenges the historical inevitability of 1946, and reminds us that the possibilities of different outcomes for women at multiple intersections were constantly within reach — the newborn found near the shore in Cité-Vincent was not an anomaly but a lineage, her mother’s act legible within a centuries-long tradition of enslaved women choosing death over the reproduction of unfreedom.