More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Gender Was A Decisive Force In Slave Society. Slave Men's Experiences Differed From Those Of Slave Women, Who Were Exploited In Both Reproductive And Productive Capacities. They Did Not Figure Prominently In Revolts Because They Engaged In Less Confrontational Methods Of Resistance, Emphasizing Creative Struggle To Survive Dehumanization And Abuse. Africa Into The Americas? : Slavery And Women, The Family, And The Gender Division Of Labor / Claire Robertson -- Women, Work, And Health Under Plantation Slavery In The United States / Richard H. Steckel -- Cycles Of Work And Of Childbearing : Seasonality In Women's Lives On Low Country Plantations / Cheryll Ann Cody -- Slave Women On The Brazilian Frontier In The Nineteenth Century / Mary Karasch -- Loose, Idle And Disorderly : Slave Women In The Eighteenth-century Charleston Marketplace / Rovert Olwell -- (cont.) Black Female Slaves And White Households In Barbados / Hilary Beckles -- Black Homes, White Homilies : Perceptions Of The Slave Family And Of Slave Women In Nineteenth-century Brazil / Robert W. Slenes -- Suffer With Them Till Death : Slave Women And Their Children In Nineteenth-century America / Wilma King -- Gender Convention, Ideals, And Identity Among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Hard Labor : Women, Childbirth, And Resistance In British Caribbean Slave Societies / Barbara Bush -- (cont.) From 'the Sense Of Their Slavery' : Slave Women And Resistance In Antigua, 1632-1763 / David Barry Gasper -- Slave Women And Resistance In The French Caribbean / Bernard Moitt -- Slave And Free Colored Women In Saint Domingue / David P. Geggus -- Economic Roles Of The Free Women Of Color Of Cap Franc̦ais / Susan M. Socolow -- Urban Slavery, Urban Freedom : The Manumission Of Jacquline Lemelle / L. Virginia Gould. Edited By David Barry Gaspar And Darlene Clark Hine. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [315]-328) And Index. Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson.“A much-needed volume on a neglected topic of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history. Its broad comparative framework makes it all the more important, for it offers the basis for evaluating similarities and contrasts in the role of gender in different slave societies.... [This] will be required reading for students all of the American South, women's history, and African American studies.” —Drew Gilpin Faust, Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania ". . . a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." Drew Faust Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse. The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson. Exploring slavery and slave society through the lives of black women.