Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
Abstract
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Keywords
proslavery; writers; antislavery; writings; female; flogging; apprentices; african; jamaican; motherDOI
10.4324/9780203676011ISBN
9780415350266;9780415758925;9781134268702;9781134268658OCN
1135855573Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2007Series
Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures,Classification
History
General and world history