Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838
By: Henrice Altink.
Series: Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures -- 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780415350266
Subjects: Women slaves -- Jamaica -- History.; Slavery -- Jamaica -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.
Table of contents: value: Belly women : slave women's childbirth practices; value: Pickeniny mummas : slave women's childrearing practices; value: Deviant and dangerous : slave women's sexuality; value: Till death do us part? : slave wives and slave husbands; value: The indecency of the lash; value: Slavery by another name.