ACLS Humanities E-Book: Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838

Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838

Bush, Barbara.

Year: c1990.

Publisher: Heinemann Caribbean.

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Frontmatter

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Preface

1 The 'invisible' black woman in Caribbean history: an introduction

2 'The eye of the beholder': contemporary European images of black women

3 Slave society, power and law: the institutional context of slave women's lives

4 Plantation labour regimes: the economic role of slave women

5 The woman slave and slave resistance

6 'The family tree is not cut': the domestic life of the woman slave

7 Slave motherhood: childbirth and infant death in a cross-cultural perspective

8 'Daughters of injur'd Africk': women, culture and community in slave society

Endnote: Out of bondage: black women and the spirit of freedom

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838 : Barbara Bush.

Author:

Bush, Barbara

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University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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2008
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Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838 : Barbara Bush.
Bush, Barbara
Kingston: Heinemann Caribbean, c1990.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02025

Subject Headings:

• Women slaves -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions
• Women, Black -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions
• Social classes -- Caribbean Area -- History

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