Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780253214522
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Slavery & emancipation; Women's studies; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; Sociology; Caribbean islands; West Indies; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Slavery; Women's Studies - History; Minority Studies - General; Sociology - General; Women's Studies - General; History; West Indies, French; Women slaves; Women, Black
First sentence: BLACK WOMEN were present in the French Antilles beginning in the early decades of the seventeenth century, when the French occupied part of Saint Christopher.
Description: Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848Bernard MoittExamines the reaction of black women to slavery.In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery.