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Table des matières
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
