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Zhang, Angela. “Rethinking ‘Domestic Enemies’: Slavery and Race Formation in Late Medieval Florence.” Speculum 99, no. 2 (April 2024): 409-431.
Examines records of daily interactions of women and enslaved domestic servants in the city of Florence during the 15th century. Zhang explores how archival records of foundlings reveal emerging racialized hierarchies within Tuscan society. Zhang argues for an intersectional approach to studies of enslavement because gendered labor, hereditary racialization, and epidermal descriptors played a key role in early race-thinking.
