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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780 69.63888888888889

By: Material type: TextSeries: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and CulturesTaylor & Francis 2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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