Slavery, freedom and gender : the dynamics of Caribbean society /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : 1 portrait.
Language:	English
Series:	Black women writers. Black women writers series.
Subject:	Slavery -- West Indies -- History. Slaves -- Emancipation -- West Indies. Freedmen -- West Indies. Women slaves -- West Indies -- History. Freedmen. Slavery. Slaves -- Emancipation. Women slaves. West Indies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473300

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Moore, Brian L., 1948-
ISBN:	976640111X 9789766401115
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Slavery, freedom and gender. Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2001

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Section I. In Slavery and Freedom
Chapter 1. Slavery and the Rise of Capitalism
Chapter 2. Africa in the Making of the Caribbean: The Formative Years
Chapter 3. The Invention of Slave Society
Chapter 4. Slavery and the Transformation of Society in Cuba, 1511-1760
Chapter 5. Planters, Farmers and Gardeners in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Chapter 6. The Post-Slavery Labour Problem Revisited
Chapter 7. Liberated Africans in Nineteenth-Century Guyana
Section II. Gender Paradigms
Chapter 8. Women and Resistance: "Herstory" in Contemporary Caribbean History
Chapter 9. Women Field Workers in Jamaica during Slavery
Chapter 10. Freeing Slavery: Gender Paradigms in the Social History of Caribbean Slavery
Chapter 11. Gendered Testimony: Autobiographies, Diaries and Letters by Women as Sources for Caribbean History
Chapter 12. Unspeakable Things Unspoken: Ghosts and Memories in the Narratives of African American Women
Epilogue: Our Debt to History
Contributors

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