Henrice Altink (UK University of York)

Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking Jamaica as its focus of study, this book analyzes three debates about slave women in the period 1780-1838 which were central to the competing discourses of slavery and abolition: motherhood, marriage and flogging.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780415758925
• ISBN-10: 0415758920
• Artikelnr.: 40478232

Autorenporträt

Henrice Altink is a lecturer in history at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Incompetent Mothers 1. Belly-Women 2. Pickeniny Mummas Part 2:
Adulterous Wives 3. Deviant and Dangerous: Attitudes to Slave Women's
Sexuality 4. Slave Marriage: Solution or Problem? Part 3: Unruly Workers
5. The Indecency of the Lash 6. Slavery by Another Name 7. Conclusion