Centering woman: gender discourses in Caribbean slave society

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Beckles,Hilary (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9789768123794
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: I. Randle
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9768123796;9789768123794;
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, History, Women, Social conditions, Slaves, 17th century, and 18th century
    Notes:
    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.

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