Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780
Altink, Henrice,
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780 69.63888888888889 - Taylor & Francis 2007 - 1 online resource - Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures .
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Antislavery Female Proslavery Writers Writings
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780 69.63888888888889 - Taylor & Francis 2007 - 1 online resource - Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures .
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Antislavery Female Proslavery Writers Writings