Title More than chattel : Black women and slavery in the Americas / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 341 pages) : illustrations Series Blacks in the diaspora Blacks in the diaspora. Contents Africa into the Americas? : slavery and women, the family, and the gender division of labor / Claire Robertson -- Women, work, and health under plantation slavery in the United States / Richard H. Steckel -- Cycles of work and of childbearing : seasonality in women's lives on low country plantations / Cheryll Ann Cody -- Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century / Mary Karasch -- Loose, idle and disorderly : slave women in the eighteenth-century Charleston marketplace / Robert Olwell -- Black female slaves and white households in Barbados / Hilary Beckles -- Black homes, white homilies : perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil / Robert W. Slenes -- Suffer with them till death : slave women and their children in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King -- Gender convention, ideals, and identity among antebellum Virginia slave women / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies / Barbara Bush -- From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763 / David Barry Gaspar -- Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean / Bernard Moitt -- Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue / David P. Geggus -- Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Franc̦ais / Susan M. Socolow -- Urban slavery, urban freedom : the manumission of Jacquline Lemelle / L. Virginia Gould Summary Gender was a decisive force in slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited in both reproductive and productive capacities. They did not figure prominently in revolts because they engaged in less confrontational methods of resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse Analysis Antislavery movements America Slavery America Women slaves America Social conditions Women, Black America Social conditions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index Notes Print version record Subject Slavery -- America Enslaved women -- America -- Social conditions Women, Black -- America -- Social conditions Antislavery movements -- America Social Conditions -- history POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. Antislavery movements Slavery Women, Black -- Social conditions Enslaved women -- Social conditions Schwarze Frau Sklaverei Vrouwen. Slaven (arbeid) Esclaves -- Amérique -- Histoire. Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- Amérique. Femmes esclaves -- Amérique -- Conditions sociales. Noires -- Amérique -- Conditions sociales. Esclavage -- Amérique. America Amerika Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung. Form Electronic book Author Gaspar, David Barry, editor. Hine, Darlene Clark, editor ISBN 9780253013651 0253013658

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