| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 217 pages) : maps |
| Series |
Blacks in the diaspora |
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Contents |
Black women and the early development of the French Antilles -- The Atlantic slave trade, Black women, and the development of the plantations -- Women and labor: slave labor -- Women and labor: domestic labor -- Marriage, family life, reproduction, and assault -- Discipline and physical abuse: slave women and the law -- Women and resistance -- Women and manumission |
| Summary |
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848Bernard MoittExamines the reaction of black women to slavery. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Enslaved women -- West Indies, French -- History
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Women, Black -- West Indies, French -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women, Black
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Enslaved women
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Sklaverei
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Frau
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Slavernij.
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Vrouwen.
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Lesser Antilles -- West Indies, French
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Frankophone Antillen
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0253108764 |
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9780253108760 |
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