More Than Chattel

by Gaspar, David Barry; Hine, Darlene Clark

• ISBN13: 9780253210432
• ISBN10: 0253210437
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." -- Drew FaustGender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson.

Author Biography

DAVID BARRY GASPAR, Professor of History at Duke University, is the author of Bondmen and Rebels. DARLENE CLARK HINE, John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University, is the author of several books, including Black Women in White. She is co-editor of Black Women in America.

Table of Contents

Preface
Africa into the Americas?: Slavery and Women, the Family, and the Gender Division of Labor	p. 3
Women, Work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the United States	p. 43
Cycles of Work and of Childbearing: Seasonality in Women's Lives on Low Country Plantations	p. 61
Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth Century	p. 79
"Loose, Idle and Disorderly": Slave Women in the Eighteenth Century Charleston Marketplace	p. 97
Black Female Slaves and White Households in Barbados	p. 111
Black Holmes, White Homilies: Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth Century Brazil	p. 126
"Suffer with Them Till Death": Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 147
Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women	p. 169
Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies	p. 193
From "the Sense of Their Slavery": Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763	p. 218
Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean	p. 239
Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint Domingue	p. 259
Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap Francais	p. 279
Urban Slavery - Urban Freedom: The Manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle	p. 298
Selected Bibliography	p. 315
Contributors	p. 329
Index	p. 332
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