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Informationen zum Autor Bernard Moitt is an assistant professor in the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Utica College of Syracuse University. Educated in Antigua (where he was born) and in Canada and the United States, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of francophone African and Caribbean history, with particular emphasis on gender and slavery. Klappentext Bernard Moitt is an assistant professor in the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Utica College of Syracuse University. Educated in Antigua (where he was born) and in Canada and the United States, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of francophone African and Caribbean history, with particular emphasis on gender and slavery. Zusammenfassung Gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. This title details and analyses the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Dominique (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Black Women and the Early Development of the French Antilles 2. The Atlantic Slave Trade, Black Women, and the Development of the Plantations 3. Women and Labor: Slave Labor 4. Women and Labor: Domestic Labor 5. Marriage, Family Life, Reproduction, and Assault 6. Discipline and Physical Abuse: Slave Women and the Law 7. Women and Resistance 8. Women and Manumission Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
