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2. More than chattel: Black women and slavery in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Hine,Darlene Clark (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 341 p, Includes Mary Karasch's "Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century," Hilary Beckles' "Black female slaves and white households in Barbados," Robert W. Slenes' "Black homes, white homilies: perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil," Barbara Bush's "Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies," David Barry Gaspar's "From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763," Bernard Moitt's "Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean,"David P. Geggus' "Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue," and Susan M. Socolow's "Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Francais."
3. Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Projected Pub Date: 1307
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.