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Laboring women : reproduction and gender in New World slavery /

How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified--and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morgan, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyle) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.
Colección:Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Some could suckle over their shoulder": male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology
  • "The number of women doeth much disparayes the whole cargoe": the trans-Atlantic slave trade and west African gender roles
  • "The breedings shall goe with their mothers": gender and evolving practices of slaveownership in the English American colonies
  • "Hannah and hir children": reproduction and creolization among enslaved women
  • "Women's sweat": gender and agricultural labor in the Atlantic world
  • "Deluders and seducers of each other": gender and the changing nature of resistance.