Journal Title: Journal of Women's History

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Finch,Aisha (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Spring, 2014
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Women's History
Journal Title Details:: 26(1) : 112-134
Notes:: Examines the women who became involved in Cuba's slave resistance movements of 1843 and 1844, drawing attention to those who molded that resistance in visible and public ways and those whose involvement has often been obscured or unnoticed. The narratives created around Fermina and Carlota Lucumf, two leading figures in the 1843 insurgencies, both rupture and complicate the masculine discourse around slave-movement leadership that has been central to historiographies of slave rebellion.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Quataert,Jean H. (Author) and Wheeler,Leigh Ann (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Spring2014
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Women's History
Journal Title Details:: 26(1) : 7-11
Notes:: The editors discuss various reports including a tribute to historian Gerda Lerner, a forum on the Western media's use of the term medieval, and the involvement of women in slave resistance unions in Cuba during the mid-19th century.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Turner,Sasha (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Fall2011
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Women's History
Journal Title Details:: 23(3) : 39-62
Notes:: Examines changes in enslaved women's working lives as planters sought to increase birth rates to replenish declining laboring populations. Establishes that enslaved women in Jamaica experienced a considerable shift in their work responsibilities and their subjection to discipline as slaveholders sought to capitalize on their abilities to reproduce. Enslaved women's reproductive capabilities were pivotal for slavery and the plantation economy's survival once legal supplies from Africa were discontinued.

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