Strategies of Slaves & Women
Title | Strategies of Slaves & Women PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia Wright |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
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The author uses biographical accounts to reconstruct the lives of enslaved women.
Women and Slavery: The modern Atlantic
Title | Women and Slavery: The modern Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Gwyn Campbell |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0821417258 |
The particular experience of enslaved women, across different cultures and many different eras is the focus of this work.
Running from Bondage
Title | Running from Bondage PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Cook Bell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108831540 |
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Slave Women in the New World
Title | Slave Women in the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Marietta Morrissey |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2021-10-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0700631674 |
In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean from 1600 through the mid 1800s. Morrissey examines a wide spectrum of experience among Caribbean slave women, including their work at home, in the fields, and as domestics; their roles as wives and mothers; their health, sexuality, and fertility; and their decline in status with the advent of industrialization and the abolition of slavery. Life for these women, Morrissey shows, was much more hazardous, brutal, and fragmented than it was for their counterparts in the American South. These women were in a constant, dynamic struggle with men—both masters and fellow slaves—over the foundations of their social experience. This experience was defined both by their status as slaves and by gender inequality. On the one hand, their slave status gradually robbed them of their domain—the household economy—and created a kind of perverse equality in which slave women—like slave men—became “units of agricultural labor.” One the other hand, slave women were denied the access that slave men eventually gained to skilled agricultural work. The result of this gender inequality, as Morrissey convincingly demonstrates, was a further erosion of the status and authority of slave women within their own culture. Morrissey’s study, which addresses significant issues in women’s history and black history, will go far toward reshaping our perceptions of slave life in the new world.
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies
Title | Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Camillia Cowling |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 2020-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0429535805 |
This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children. Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New England, and including the work of historians based in Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Britain, this collection breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of mothering for the perpetuation of slavery, and the complexity of the experience of motherhood in such circumstances. This pathbreaking collection, on all aspects of the experience, politics, and representations of motherhood under Atlantic slavery, analyses societies across the Atlantic world, and will be of interest to those studying the history of slavery as well as those studying mothering throughout history. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women’s History Review.
Wake
Title | Wake PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Hall |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982115203 |
A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the “powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the “riveting” (Angela Y. Davis) story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere. Using a “remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection” (NPR), Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca’s own story as the legacy of slavery shapes her life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. Illustrated beautifully in black and white, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. This story of a personal and national legacy is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.
Black Female Slaves' Resistance and Fight for Dignity
Title | Black Female Slaves' Resistance and Fight for Dignity PDF eBook |
Author | Clio Fouque |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
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