Women and slavery. Volume one, Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic / edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Gwyn, 1952-

Miers, Suzanne.

Miller, Joseph Calder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved women--Africa--History.

Enslaved women.

Slavery--Africa--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 399 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who-as these two volumes reveal-probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites-as "scheming Jezebels," ample and devoted "mammies," or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse-that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old-concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as "wives" and "nieces," taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion. Women and Slavery presents papers developed from an international conference organized by Gwyn Campbell. Volume 1 Contributors: Sharifa Ahjum, Richard B. Allen, Katrin Bromber, Gwyn Campbell, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Timothy Fernyhough, Philip J. Havik, Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan, Martin A. Klein, George Michael La Rue, Paul E. Lovejoy, Fred Morton, Richard Roberts, Kirsten A. Seaver

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

A Tribute to Suzanne Miers

Preface

INTRODUCTION WOMEN AS SLAVES AND OWNERS OF SLAVES

Part I: Women in Domestic Slavery across Africa and Asia

Ch. 1 WOMEN, MARRIAGE, AND SLAVERY IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Ch. 2 SEX, POWER, AND FAMILY LIFE IN THE HAREM

Ch. 3 THE LAW OF THE (WHITE) FATHER

Part II: Women in Islamic Households

Ch. 4 MJAKAZI, MPAMBE, MJOLI, SURIA

Ch. 5 PRICES FOR FEMALE SLAVES AND CHANGES IN THEIR LIFE CYCLE

Part III: Women in Households on the Fringes of Christianity and Commerce

Ch. 6 THRALLS AND QUEENS

Ch. 7 AFRICAN SLAVE WOMEN IN EGYPT, CA. 1820 TO THE PLAGUE OF 1834-35

Ch. 8 FEMALE INBOEKELINGE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC, 1850-80

Part IV: Women in Imperial African Worlds

Ch. 9 WOMEN, GENDER HISTORY, AND SLAVERY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ETHIOPIA

Ch. 10 FEMALE BONDAGE IN IMPERIAL MADAGASCAR, 1820-95

Ch. 11 INTERNAL MARKETS OR AN ATLANTIC-SAHARA DIVIDE?

Ch. 12 WOMEN, HOUSEHOLD INSTABILITY, AND THE END OF SLAVERY IN BANAMBA AND GUMBU, FRENCH SOUDAN, 1905-12

Part V: Women in Commercial Outposts of Modern Europe

Ch. 13 FROM PARIAHS TO PATRIOTS

Ch. 14 IT ALL COMES OUT IN THE WASH

Ch. 15 FREE WOMEN OF COLOR AND SOCIOECONOMIC MARGINALITY IN MAURITIUS, 1767-1830

CONTRIBUTORS

index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

ISBN:

0-8214-4245-7

OCLC:

923681529