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Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848
Contributor(s): Moitt, Bernard (Author)
ISBN: 0253214521     ISBN-13: 9780253214522
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE:   $21.78  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2001
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Slavery
- History | Caribbean & West Indies - General
Dewey: 305.489
LCCN: 00143858
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.02" W x 9.16" (0.83 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848

Bernard Moitt

Examines the reaction of black women to slavery.

In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848. Moitt examines the lives of black women in bondage, evaluates the impact that the slave experience had on them, and assesses the ways in which women reacted to and coped with slavery in the French Caribbean for over two centuries.

As males outnumbered females for most of the slavery period and monopolized virtually all of the specialized tasks, the disregard for gender in task allocation meant that females did proportionately more hard labor than did males. In addition to hard work in the fields, women were engaged in gender-specific labor and performed a host of other tasks.

Women resisted slavery in the same ways that men did, as well as in ways that gender and allocation of tasks made possible. Moitt casts slave women in dynamic roles previously ignored by historians, thus bringing them out of the shadows of the plantation world into full view, where they belong.

Bernard Moitt is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Previously, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Utica College of Syracuse University. Educated in Antigua (where he was born), Canada, and the United States, he has written on aspects of francophone African and Caribbean history, with particular emphasis on gender and slavery.

Blacks in the Diaspora--Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Jr., David Barry Gaspar, general editors

June 2001
256 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, index, append.
cloth 0-253-33913-8 $44.95 L / 34.00
paper 0-253-21452-1 $19.95 s / 15.50