ISBN:
128389761X
,
9780812206371
,
9781283897617
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Early American Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Laboring Women : Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Human reproduction ; Social aspects ; North America ; History
;
Human reproduction ; Social aspects ; West Indies, British ; History
;
Sex role ; North America ; History
;
Sex role ; West Indies, British ; History
;
Slavery ; North America ; History
;
Women slaves ; North America ; Social conditions
;
Women slaves ; West Indies, British ; Social conditions
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Nordamerika
;
Sklavin
;
Geschichte 1600-1800
Abstract:
How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified--and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Sources -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: ''Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder'': Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology -- Chapter 2: ''The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe'': The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles -- Chapter 3 ''The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers'': Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies -- Chapter 4 ''Hannah and Hir Children'': Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women -- Chapter 5 ''Women's Sweat'': Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World -- Chapter 6 ''Deluders and Seducers of Each Other'': Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Note on Sources""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: ''Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder'': Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology""; ""Chapter 2: ''The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe'': The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles""; ""Chapter 3 ''The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers'': Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter 4 ''Hannah and Hir Children'': Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women""""Chapter 5 ''Women's Sweat'': Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World""; ""Chapter 6 ''Deluders and Seducers of Each Other'': Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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