More than Chattel : Black Women and Slavery in the Americas / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaspar, David Barry, editor.

Hine, Darlene Clark, editor.

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

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--America.

Slavery.

Enslaved women--America--Social conditions.

Enslaved women.

Women, Black--America--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Antislavery movements--America.

Antislavery movements.

Social conditions.

America.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, iii, 341 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Gender was a decisive force in slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited in both reproductive and productive capacities. They did not figure prominently in revolts because they engaged in less confrontational methods of resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.

Contents:

Africa and the Americas. Africa into the Americas? Slavery and Women, the Family, and the Gender Division of Labor / Claire Robertson

Life and Labor. Women, work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the United States / Richard H. Steckel; Cycles of Work and of Childbearing. Seasonality in Women's Lives on Low Country Plantations / Cheryll Ann Cody; Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth Century / Mary Karasch; "Loose, Idle and Disorderly" Slave Women in the Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace / Robert Olwell; Black Female Slaves and White Households in Barbados / Hilary Beckles; Black Homes, White Homilies. Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil / Robert W. Slenes; "Suffer with Them Till Death" Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America / Wilma King; Gender Convention, Ideals and Identity among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women / Brenda E. Stevenson

Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom. Hard Labor. Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies / Barbara Bush; From "the Sense of Their Slavery" Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua 1632-1763 / David Barry Gaspar; Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean / Bernard Moitt; Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint Domingue / David P. Geggus; Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap Françis / Susan M. Socolow; Urban Slavery-Urban Freedom. The Manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle / L. Virginia Gould.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-328) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Storage copy has MS. notes by Sheldon Hackney at end and some of his markings in text.

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

Banks Collection copy has photocopies of cover and contents pages laid in.

ISBN:

0253330173

0253210437

OCLC:

33043551