Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Illustrations (page vii)
- Maps (page ix)
- Preface (page xi)
- 1 The 'invisible' black woman in Caribbean history: an introduction (page 1)
- 2 'The eye of the beholder': contemporary European images of black women (page 11)
- 3 Slave society, power and law: the institutional context of slave women's lives (page 23)
- 4 Plantation labour regimes: the economic role of slave women (page 33)
- 5 The woman slave and slave resistance (page 51)
- 6 'The family tree is not cut': the domestic life of the woman slave (page 83)
- 7 Slave motherhood: childbirth and infant death in a cross-cultural perspective (page 120)
- 8 'Daughters of injur'd Africk': women, culture and community in slave society (page 151)
- Endnote: Out of bondage: black women and the spirit of freedom (page 162)
- Notes (page 168)
- Bibliography (page 172)
- Index (page 183)