Centering Women consists of somewhat altered versions of the author's previously published articles, with an introduction and "summation" that argue for a post-nationalist history of gender in the Caribbean
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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211 p, Contents: Introduction: Historicising 'Woman' and Slavery -- Black Women and the Political Economy of Slavery -- Property Rights in Pleasure: marketing Black Women's Sexuality -- Phibbah's Price: A black 'wife' for Thomas Thisleewood -- White women and freedom -- Fenwick's Fortune: A White Woman's West India Dream -- A Governor's Wife's Tale: Lady Nugent's "Blackies" -- A Planter's Wife's Tale: Mrs. Carmichael's Pro-Slavery Discourse -- Old Doll's Daughters: Flight from Bondage and Blackness -- An Economic Life of Their Own: Enslaved Women as Entrepreneurs -- Taking Liberties: Enslaved Women and Anti-Slavery Politics -- Historicising Slavery in Caribbean Feminism.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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388 p, Includes Richard S. Dunn's "Sugar production and slave women in Jamaica"; -- David P. Geggus' "Sugar and coffee cultivation in Saint Domingue and the shaping of the slave labor force"; David Barry Gaspar's "Sugar cultivation and slave life in Antigua before 1800"; Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Coffee planters and coffee slaves in the Antilles: the impact of a secondary crop"; Woodville K. Marshall's "Provision ground and plantation labor in four windward islands: competition for resources during slavery"; and Dale Tomich's "Une petite guinée: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848"
Philadelphia, PA: University of Philadelphia Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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217 p., In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Recounts the lives of enslaved women in 18th century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive.
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.
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
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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."
