More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas PDF
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rv\%- \ \<m MORE THAN CHATTEL Blacks in the Diaspora Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Jr., and David Barry Gaspar General Editors t p a Rita, a celebrated black beauty at Rio de Janeiro ca. 1822 by Augustus Earle (1793-1838), watercolor: 20 x 28.9 cm. Rex Nan Kinell Collection, the National Library of Australia. MORE THAN CHATTEL BLACK WOMEN AND SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine Indiana University Press ♦ Bloomington and Indianapolis © 1996 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data More than chattel : black women and slavery in the Americas / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. p. cm. — (Blacks in the diaspora) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-253-33017-3 (cloth: alk. paper). — ISBN 0-253-21043-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Slavery—America. 2. Women slaves—America—Social conditions. 3. Women, Black—America—Social conditions. 4. Antislavery movements— America. I. Gaspar, David Barry. II. Hine, Darlene Clark. III. Series. HT1049.M62 1996 306.3'62'082—dc20 95-36096 3 4 5 01 00 99 98 JUN 0 4 tS99 To the memory of two black mothers and teachers Anne-Marie Felina Gaspar Nicklette Lottie Mae Thompson Clark ' CONTENTS PREFACE [x Africa and the Americas I. Africa into the Americas? 3 Slavery and Women, the Family, and the Gender Division of Labor Claire Robertson Life and Labor II. Women, Work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the United States 43 Richard H. Steckel III. Cycles of Work and of Childbearing 61 — Seasonality in Women’s Lives on Low Country Plantations Cheryll Ann Cody IV. Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth Century 79 Mary Karasch V. “Loose, Idle and Disorderly” 97 Slave Women in the Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace Robert Olwell VI. Black Female Slaves and White Households in Barbados 111 Hilary Beckles VII. Black Homes, White Homilies 126 Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil - Robert W. Slenes CONTENTS viii —-VIII. “Suffer with Them Till Death” 147 Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America Wilma King IX. Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women 169 Brenda E. Stevenson Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom X. Hard Labor 193 Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British /I Caribbean Slave Societies Barbara Bush XI. From “the Sense of Their Slavery” 218 Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763 David Barry Gaspar XII. Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean 239 Bernard Moitt XIII. Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint Domingue 259 David P. Geggus XIV. Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap Fran^ais 279 Susan M. Socolow XV. Urban Slavery-Urban Freedom 298 The Manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle L. Virginia Gould SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 315 Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe and David Barry Gaspar CONTRIBUTORS 329 INDEX 332
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