Representations Of Slave Women In Discourses On Slavery And Abolition, 1780-1838 (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.

• | Author: Henrice Altink
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0415758920
• | ISBN-13: 9780415758925