More than chattel : Black women and slavery in the Americas

Title
  1. More than chattel : Black women and slavery in the Americas / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine.
Published by
  1. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Gaspar, David Barry.
  2. Hine, Darlene Clark.
Description
  1. xi, 341 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. Blacks in the diaspora
Subject
  1. Slavery > America
  2. Enslaved women > America > Social conditions
  3. Women, Black > America > Social conditions
  4. Antislavery movements > America
Contents
  1. Africa into the Americas? : slavery and women, the family, and the gender division of labor / Claire Robertson -- Women, work, and health under plantation slavery in the United States / Richard H. Steckel -- Cycles of work and of childbearing : seasonality in women's lives on Low Country plantations / Cheryll Ann Cody -- Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century / Mary Karasch -- "Loose, idle and disorderly" : slave women in the eighteenth-century Charleston marketplace / Robert Olwell -- Black female slaves and white households in Barbados / Hilary Beckles -- Black homes, white homilies : perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil / Robert W. Slenes -- "Suffer with them till death" : slave women and their children in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King -- Gender convention, ideals, and identity among antebellum Virginia slave women / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies / Barbara Bush -- From The sense of their slavery : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763 / David Barry Gaspar -- Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean / Bernard Moitt -- Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue / David P. Geggus -- Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Français / Susan M. Socolow -- Urban slavery--urban freedom : the manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle / L. Virginia Gould.
Call number
  1. Sc E 96-389
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index.
Title
  1. More than chattel : Black women and slavery in the Americas / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine.
Imprint
  1. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1996.
Series
  1. Blacks in the diaspora
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index.
Added author
  1. Gaspar, David Barry.
  2. Hine, Darlene Clark.
LCCN
  1. 95036096
ISBN
  1. 0253330173 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0253210437 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 96-389
  2. JFE 96-12556
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