Bernard Moitt

Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848

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Produktbeschreibung

Bernard Moitt is an assistant professor in the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Utica College of Syracuse University. Educated in Antigua (where he was born) and in Canada and the United States, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of francophone African and Caribbean history, with particular emphasis on gender and slavery.

Produktdetails

• Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780253214522
• ISBN-10: 0253214521
• Artikelnr.: 22253357

Autorenporträt

Bernard Moitt is an assistant professor in the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Utica College of Syracuse University. Educated in Antigua (where he was born) and in Canada and the United States, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of francophone African and Caribbean history, with particular emphasis on gender and slavery.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Black Women and the Early Development of the French Antilles
2. The Atlantic Slave Trade, Black Women, and the Development of the
Plantations
3. Women and Labor: Slave Labor
4. Women and Labor: Domestic Labor
5. Marriage, Family Life, Reproduction, and Assault
6. Discipline and Physical Abuse: Slave Women and the Law
7. Women and Resistance
8. Women and Manumission
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index