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v. 1. Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic -- v. 2. The modern Atlantic. |
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v. 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval North Atlantic. I. Women in domestic slavery across Africa and Asia. Women, marriage, and slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth century / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- Sex, power, and family life in the harem : a comparative study / Martin A. Klein -- The law of the (white) father : psychoanalysis, 'paternalism,' and the historiography of cape slave women / Sharifa Ahjum -- II. Women in Islamic Households. Mjakazi, Mpambe, Mjoli, Suria : female slaves in Swahili sources / Katrin Bromber -- Prices for female slaves and changes in their life cycle : evidence from German East Africa / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- III. Women in households on the fringes of Christianity and commerce. Thralls and queens : female slavery in the medieval Norse Atlantic / Kirsten A. Seaver -- African slave women in Egypt, ca. 1820 to the plague of 1834-35 / George Michael La Rue -- Female Inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850-80 / Fred Morton -- IV. Women in imperial African worlds. Women, gender history, and slavery in nineteenth-century Ethiopia / Timothy Fernyhough -- Female bondage in imperial Madagascar, 1820-95 / Gwyn Campbell -- Internal markets or an Atlantic-Sahara divide? How women fit into the slave trade of west Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Women, household instability, and the end of slavery in Banamba and Gumbu, French Soudan, 1905-12 / Richard Roberts -- V. Women in commercial outposts of modern Europe. From pariahs to patriots : women slavers in nineteenth-century 'Portuguese' Guinea / Philip J. Havik -- It all comes out in the wash : engendering archaeological interpretations of slavery / Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan -- Free women of color and socioeconomic marginality in Mauritius, 1767-1830 / Richard B. Allen -- |
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v. 2: The modern Atlantic. I. The reproductive biology of sugar slavery. Slave women and reproduction in Jamaica, ca. 1776-1834 / Kenneth Morgan -- Gloomy melancholy : the reproductive lives of Louisiana slave women, 1840-60 / Richard Follett -- II. Women's initiatives under slavery. Can women guide and govern men? Gendering politics among African Catholics in Colonial Brazil / Mariza de Carvalho Soares -- A particular kind of freedom : black women, slavery, kinship, and freedom in the American southeast / Barbara Krauthamer -- Enslaved women and the law : paradoxes of subordination in the postrevolutionary Carolinas / Laura F. Edwards -- III. Rebuilding lives in the Caribbean : emancipation and its aftermath. Pricing freedom in the French Caribbean : women, men, children, and redemption from slavery in the 1840s / Bernard Moitt -- Slave women, family strategies, and the transition to freedom in Barbados, 1834-41 / Laurence Brown and Tara Inniss -- Free but minor : slave women, citizenship, respectability, and social antagonism in the French Antilles, 1830-90 / Myriam Cottias -- IV. Representing women slaves : masters' fantasies and memories in fiction. Deviant and dangerous : proslavery representations of Jamaican slave women's sexuality, ca. 1780-1834 / Henrice Altink -- The condition of the mother : the legacy of slavery in African American literature of the Jim Crow era / Felipe Smith -- V. Historiographical reflections on slavery and women. Re-modeling slavery as if women mattered / Claire Robertson and Marsha Robinson -- Disoriented, dependent, domiciled, and dominated : slaving as a history of women / Joseph C. Miller. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical reference and index. |
| LCCN | 2007018274 |
| ISBN | 9780821417232 (hc : v. 1 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0821417231 (hc : v. 1 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780821417249 (pbk. : v. 1 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 082141724X (pbk. : v. 1 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780821417256 (hc : v. 2 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0821417258 (hc : v. 2 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780821417263 (pbk. : v. 2 : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0821417266 (pbk. : v. 2 : alk. paper) |
