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Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838 / Henrice Altink.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altink, Henrice.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures Series
- Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Jamaica--History.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, ©2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- CC BY-NC-ND
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9781134268702
- 113426870X
- 9781134268696
- 1134268696
- 9780203676011
- 0203676017
- OCLC:
- 1034576855
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203676011
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