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More Than Chattel – Black Women and Slavery in the Americas de David Barry Gaspar

More Than Chattel – Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

Autor David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 1996
..". a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." Drew Faust
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.
The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253210432
ISBN-10: 0253210437
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

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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.

Cuprins

Preface
Africa and the Americas
1. Africa in to the Americas? Slavery and Women, the Family and the Sexual Division of Labor-Claire Robertson
Life and Labor
2. Women, Work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the Untied States-Richard H. Steckel
3. Cycles of Work and of Childbearing: Seasonality in Women's Lives on Low Country Plantations-Cheryll Ann Cody
4. Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth Century-Mary Karasch
5. "Loose, idle and Disorderly": Slave Women int he Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace-Robert A. Olwell
6. Black Female Slaves and White Households in Barbados-Hilary Beckles
7. Black Homes, White Homilies: Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil-Robert W. Slenes
8. "Suffer with Them Till Death": Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America-Wilma King
9. Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity Among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women-Brenda E. Stevenson
Slavery, REsistance, and Freedom
10. Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies-Barbara Bush
11. From "the Sense of their Slavery": Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763-David Barry Gaspar
12. Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean-Bernard Moitt
13. Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint Domingue-David P. Geggus
14. Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap Francais-Susan M. Socolow
15. Urban Slavery, Urban Freedom: The Manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle-L. Virginia Gould
Selected Bibliography
Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe
Notes on Contributors
Index

Notă biografică

edited by David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine