Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838 / Henrice Altink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altink, Henrice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery.

History.

Enslaved women.

Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2007.

Summary:

This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women's lives.

Contents:

Belly women : slave women's childbirth practices

Pickeniny mummas : slave women's childrearing practices

Deviant and dangerous : slave women's sexuality

Till death do us part? : slave wives and slave husbands

The indecency of the lash

Slavery by another name.

Notes:

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