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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures Series
Author: Altink Henrice
Language: English
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Keywords
Antislavery Writers; proslavery; Proslavery Writers; writers; Anti-slavery Writers; antislavery; Slave Women; writings; Female Flogging; female; African Jamaican Woman; flogging; Antislavery Discourse; apprentices; Slave Women’s Sexuality; african; Female Apprentices; jamaican; Jamaican Slave Women; mother; Workhouse Officers; Slave Men; White Jamaican; Proslavery Discourse; Slave Mother; Pregnant Slave Women; Slave Marriage; Childbirth Practices; Workhouse Committees; Slave Husbands; Weaned Children; Nonconformist Marriages; Free Coloured Women; Slave Woman’s Body; West India Committee
Publication date: 04-2014
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 07-2007
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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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 not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women?s lives.
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
