Africa into the Americas?: Slavery and Women, the Family, and the Gender Division of Labor
p. 3
Women, Work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the United States
p. 43
Cycles of Work and of Childbearing: Seasonality in Women's Lives on Low Country Plantations
p. 61
Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth Century
p. 79
"Loose, Idle and Disorderly": Slave Women in the Eighteenth Century Charleston Marketplace
p. 97
Black Female Slaves and White Households in Barbados
p. 111
Black Holmes, White Homilies: Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth Century Brazil
p. 126
"Suffer with Them Till Death": Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America
p. 147
Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women
p. 169
Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies
p. 193
From "the Sense of Their Slavery": Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763
p. 218
Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean
p. 239
Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint Domingue
p. 259
Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap Francais
p. 279
Urban Slavery - Urban Freedom: The Manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle
p. 298
Selected Bibliography
p. 315
Contributors
p. 329
Index
p. 332
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