Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society
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Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-788-5
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: Subjections
Black Women and the Political Economy of Slavery
Property Rights in Pleasure Marketing Black Women's Sexuality
Phibbah's Price: A Jamaican 'Wife' for Thomas Thistlewood
PART TWO: Subscriptions
White Women and freedom
Fenwick's Fortune: A White Woman's West India Dream
A Governor's Wife's Tale: Lady Nugent's Jamaican 'Biackies'
A Planter's Wife's Tale: Mrs A. C. Carmichael's Proslavery Ideology
PART THREE: Subversions
Old Doll's Daughters: Slave Elitism and Freedom
An Economic Life of Their Own: Enslaved Women as Entrepreneurs
Taking Liberties: Enslaved Women and Anti-slavery Politics
PART FOUR: Summation
Historicising Slavery in Caribbean Feminism
Bibliography
Index
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