Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838 / / Henrice Altink.
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains n...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2007. |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Belly women : slave women's childbirth practices
- Pickeniny mummas : slave women's childrearing practices
- Deviant and dangerous : slave women's sexuality
- Till death do us part? : slave wives and slave husbands
- The indecency of the lash
- Slavery by another name.