Women and slavery. Volume two, The modern 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--History.

Enslaved women.

Slavery--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 329 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2008.

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. Volume 2 Contributors: Henrice Altin, k Laurence Brown, Myriam Cottias, Laura F. Edwards, Richard Follett, Tara Inniss, Barbara Krauthamer, Joseph C. Miller, Bernard Moitt, Kenneth Morgan, Claire Robertson, Marsha Robinson, Felipe Smith, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

A TRIBUTE TO SUZANNE MIERS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION STRATEGIES OF WOMEN AND CONSTRAINTS OF ENSLAVEMENT IN THE MODERN AMERICAS

1 SLAVE WOMEN AND REPRODUCTION IN JAMAICA, CA. 1776-1834

2 GLOOMY MELANCHOLY

3 CAN WOMEN GUIDE AND GOVERN MEN?

4 A PARTICULAR KIND OF FREEDOM

5 ENSLAVED WOMEN AND THE LAW

6 PRICING FREEDOM IN THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN

7 SLAVE WOMEN, FAMILY STRATEGIES, AND THE TRANSITION TO FREEDOM IN BARBADOS, 1834-41

8 FREE BUT MINOR

9 DEVIANT AND DANGEROUS

10 THE CONDITION OF THE MOTHER

11 RE- MODELING SLAVERY AS IF WOMEN MATTERED

12 DOMICILED AND DOMINATED

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

WOMEN AND SLAVERY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

ISBN:

0-8214-4246-5

OCLC:

923681530