Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838 / / Henrice Altink.

• VerfasserIn: Altink, Henrice,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

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.