Title Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838 / Henrice Altink

Published New York : Routledge, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures ; 3 Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures ; 3. Contents Belly women : slave women's childbirth practices -- Pickeniny mummas : slave women's childrearing practices -- Deviant and dangerous : slave women's sexuality -- Till death do us part? : slave wives and slave husbands -- The indecency of the lash -- Slavery by another name Summary This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women's lives Analysis proslavery writers antislavery writings female flogging apprentices african jamaican mother Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index Subject Enslaved women -- Jamaica -- History Enslaved women -- Jamaica -- Public opinion Slavery -- Jamaica -- History Slavery Enslaved women Jamaica Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006033882 ISBN 9780203676011 0203676017

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