Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838In this text the author sets forth and then evaulates the images of slave women accumulated in published sources and folklore. |
Contents
an introduction | 1 |
the institutional context of slave | 23 |
the economic role of slave women | 33 |
the provision ground and the slave | 46 |
the domestic life of the woman slave | 83 |
childbirth and infant death in a crosscultural | 120 |
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abolitionist abortion African cultural arguably argued Ashanti Barbados behaviour believed black women Bryan Edwards childbearing childbirth Christian codes colonies coloured contemporary observers context Craton creole Cutrufelli death despite disease domestic Edward Brathwaite Edward Long eighteenth century European evidence existed female slaves fertility rate field frequently Gautier Genovese Herbert Gutman Higman important individual slave infant instance islands Jamaica London John Stedman labour Lewis Ligon low fertility male slave maroon marriage masters modern moral mulatto negro obeah overseer Patterson period of slavery plantation planters plantocratic poisoning polygynous practice pregnant promiscuity provision grounds punishment rebellion religion role sexual Sheridan Sir Hans Sloane slave community slave family slave laws slave mothers slave population slave resistance slave revolts slave society slave trade slave women slavery social stereotypes Surinam tetanus traditional African West African society West Indian West Indian slave white women wife Wilberforce House William Beckford woman women slaves wrote