Slavery, freedom and gender : the dynamics of Caribbean society /
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Imprint: | Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2001. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : 1 portrait. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Black women writers. Black women writers series. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473300 |
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