Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838 / Barbara Bush Senior Lecturer in Social & Political Studies, Parson Cross College, Sheffield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bush, Barbara, 1946-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved women--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Enslaved women.

Women, Black--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Social classes--Caribbean Area--History.

Social classes.

History.

Social conditions.

Caribbean Area.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Distribution:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean), 1990.

Contents:

1. The 'invisible' black woman in Caribbean history: an introduction

2. 'The eye of the beholder': contemporary European images of black women

3. Slave society, power and law: the institutional context of slave women's lives

4. Plantation labour regimes: the economic role of slave women. Women in formal plantation economy; Informal economic activities: the provision ground and the slave market

5. The woman slave and slave resistance. Day-to-day resistance; Female slave runaways; Traitor or amazon? Women in slave uprisings; African religion and slave resistance; The transition to freedom; Summary

6. 'The family tree is not cut': the domestic life of the women slave. The black family reassessed; The black matriarch: slave motherhood in the African cultural context; The myth of black female promiscuity; Marriage and divorce; Parenthood; Kinship and community; Slave sales and enforced separation; 'Hot onstitution'ed ladies': black women, power and sexuality; Summary

7. Slave motherhood: childbirth and infant death in a cross-cultural perspective. Patterns of slave reproduction: contemporary explanations re-examined; To breed or labour? Women, childbirth and the plantation regime; Reluctant mothers: conscious and unconscious limits on fertility; Low fertility or high morality? Some reflections on slave infant death; An enduring enigma

8. 'Daughters of injur'ed Africk': women, culture and community in slave society

Endnote: Out of bondage: black women and the spirit of freedom.

Notes:

"First published 1990."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0253312841

0253212510

OCLC:

20319390