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..". a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of greatinterest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." -- DrewFaust
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slavemen's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both inreproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominentlyin revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizingcreative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.
Thecontributors 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.
List of contents
Preface Africa and the Americas 1. Africa in to the Americas? Slavery and Women, the Family and the Sexual Division of LaborNClaire Robertson Life and Labor 2. Women, Work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the Untied StatesNRichard H. Steckel 3. Cycles of Work and of Childbearing: Seasonality in WomenOs Lives on Low Country PlantationsNCheryll Ann Cody 4. Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth CenturyNMary Karasch 5. OLoose, idle and DisorderlyO: Slave Women int he Eighteenth-Century Charleston MarketplaceNRobert A. Olwell 6. Black Female Slaves and White Households in BarbadosNHilary Beckles 7. Black Homes, White Homilies: Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth-Century BrazilNRobert W. Slenes 8. OSuffer with Them Till DeathO: Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century AmericaNWilma King 9. Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity Among Antebellum Virginia Slave WomenNBrenda E. Stevenson Slavery, REsistance, and Freedom 10. Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave SocietiesNBarbara Bush 11. From Othe Sense of their SlaveryO: Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632ETH1763NDavid Barry Gaspar 12. Slave Women and Resistance in the French CaribbeanNBernard Moitt 13. Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint DomingueNDavid P. Geggus 14. Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap FrancaisNSusan M. Socolow 15. Urban Slavery, Urban Freedom: The Manumission of Jacqueline LemelleNL. Virginia Gould Selected Bibliography Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe Notes on Contributors Index
About the author
DAVID BARRY GASPAR, Professor of History at Duke University, is the author of Bondmen and Rebels. DARLENE CLARK HINE, John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University, is the author of several books, including Black Women in White. She is co-editor of Black Women in America.
