Slave Women in the New World : Gender Stratification in the Caribbean
In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, S...
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University Press of Kansas
1989
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