Women and Slavery, Volume One

- Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic (v. 1)

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The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who—as these two volumes reveal—probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged.

Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites—as “scheming Jezebels,” ample and devoted “mammies,” or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse—that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old—concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as “wives” and “nieces,” taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion.

Women and Slavery presents papers developed from an international conference organized by Gwyn Campbell.

Volume 1 Contributors

Sharifa Ahjum

Richard B. Allen

Katrin Bromber

Gwyn Campbell

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Jan-Georg Deutsch

Timothy Fernyhough

Philip J. Havik

Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan

Martin A. Klein

George Michael La Rue

Paul E. Lovejoy

Fred Morton

Richard Roberts

Kirsten A. Seaver

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal392
  • Udgivelsesdato28-09-2007
  • ISBN139780821417232
  • Forlag Ohio University Press
  • FormatHardback
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