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Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838

Barbara Bush c1990 © Barbara Bush
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  • 9780253212511 (paper)
  • 9780253312846 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Latin American
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  • Table of Contents

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  • 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)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
LARR 31.1 (1996): 135-147 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0023-8791%281996%2931%3A1%3C135%3ARLOLAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
IMR 26.2 (Summer 1992): 696-697 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0197-9183%28199222%2926%3A2%3C696%3ASWICS1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
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