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A historical study of women in Jamaica : 1655-1844 /

In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations of scholars. Through extensive archival work with estate records, legal records, family papers and private correspondence, she sought out the women of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mair, Lucille Mathurin
Autor Corporativo: University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados). Centre for Gender and Development Studies
Otros Autores: Beckles, Hilary, 1955-, Shepherd, Verene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press : Centre for Gender and Development Studies, 2006.
Colección:Black women writers series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Tables; Introduction; Author's Preface; Part One The Female Arrivants, 1655-1770; The Arrivals of White Women; The Arrivals of Black Women; The Growth of the Mulatto Group; Part Two Creole Slave Society, 1770-1834; The White Woman in Jamaican Slave Society; The White Woman; The Black Woman; The Mulatto Woman in Jamaican Slave Society; Part Three Postscript, 1834-1844; The Beginning of a Free Society, 1834-1844; Recollections into a Journey of a Rebel Past; Population: St James Parish; Notes; Author's Bibliography; Editors' Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author