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Women in western systems of slavery: Introduction

2005; Frank Cass & Co.; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01440390500176178

1743-9523

Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller,

African history and culture studies

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] Studies of non-western systems include: Reid (ed.), Slavery, Bondage and Dependency; Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery; Kopytoff and Miers (eds.), Slavery in Africa; Meillassoux, The Anthropology of Slavery; see Watson (ed.), Asian and African Systems of Slavery; Klein (ed.), Breaking the Chains; Clarence-Smith (ed.), The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade; Campbell (ed.), Abolition and its Aftermath; Campbell (ed), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia – also published as a special edition of Slavery & Abolition 24.2 (2003). [2] See bibliographical appendix. [3] See e.g. Altink, Deviant and Dangerous in this volume, where these images are the centre of her analysis. [4] See bibliographical appendix. [5] See e.g. Gwyn Campbell, An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 42; Indian Slaves in South Africa. Available from http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/solidarity/indiasa3.html (11/03/05). [6] See Campbell, “Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World”. In Structure of Slavery. [7] Bradlow and Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, 102; Jordan, Unrelenting Toil, in this volume. [8] Worden, Indian Ocean Slavery; Allen, The Mascarene Slave Trade and Labour Migration. [9] Rama, Breeders or Workers? [10] Fogel and Engerman, Time on the Cross. [11] White, Ar'n't I A Woman. [12] See e.g. Edwards, Enslaved Women and the Law, in this volume. [13] Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie – the Dutch ‘United East India Company’. [14] Moree, A Concise History of Dutch Mauritius, 37, 84. [15] Berlin, Many Thousands Gone. [16] Edwards, Enslaved Women. [17] Fall, Malagasy in Antebellum Maryland and Virginia. [18] Allen, Femmes de Couleur Libre, in this volume. [19] Morton, Female Inboekelinge, in this volume. [20] Brown and Inniss, The Slave Family in the Transition to Freedom, in this volume. This was less the case in mines where African slave labour was often skilled. [21] Worden, Indian Ocean Slavery in the Cape Colony. [22] Jordan, Unrelenting Toil. [23] See e.g. paper by Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Can Women Guide or Govern Men?, to be published in Campbell, Miers and Miller (eds.), Women in Slavery. [24] Jordan, Unrelenting Toil. [25] Edwards, Enslaved Women. [26] Morgan, Slave Women and Reproduction in Jamaica. See also Rama, Breeders or Workers? [27] E.g. Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, and Bush, Hard Labor, or Craton, Searching for the Invisible Man; Morrissey, Women's Work. [28] Follett, Lives of Living Death, in this volume; see also Morgan, Slave Women and Reproduction. [29] See e.g. Sharpe, Ghosts of Slavery. [30] Soares, Can Women Guide or Govern Men? [31] Sharpe, Ghosts of Slavery; see also Soares, Can Women Guide or Govern Men? [32] E.g., Gutman, The Black Family. [33] Fall, Malagasy in Antebellum Maryland and Virginia [34] de Oliveira, The Reconstruction of Ethnicity in Bahia, 158–80, and Reis, Ethnic Politics among Africans in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, 240–64, both in Lovejoy and Trotman (eds.), Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity. [35] See e.g. Wilkie, Creating Freedom. [36] Jordan, Unrelenting Toil. [37] Ibid. [38] Soares, Can Women Guide or Govern Men? [39] White, Ar'n't I A Woman?; Brown and Inniss, Slave Family. [40] Landers, African-American Women and Their Pursuit of Rights, 56–76; McKnight, The Diabolical Pacts of Slavery, 509–36. [41] Edwards, Enslaved Women. [42] Bonneville (1900) quoted in Cottias, Gender and Republican Citizenship, in this volume. [43] Altink, Deviant and Dangerous. [44] Freyre, Casa-grande e senzala, translated as The Masters and the Slaves. [45] Rama, Breeders or Workers?. [46] See e.g. Edwards, Enslaved Women. [47] A point emphasized in the paper by Jordan, Unrelenting Toil, with reference to Young (ed.), Engendering African American Archaeology. [48] Jordan, Unrelenting Toil. [49] Sharpe, Ghosts of Slavery. [50] Altink, Deviant and Dangerous. [51] Edwards, Enslaved Women. [52] Allen, Femmes de Couleur Libre. [53] Schafer, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley. [54] Edwards, Enslaved Women. [55] Morton, Female Inboekelinge. [56] But not, apparently, in the sugar parishes of Louisiana, where rapid rates of economic growth and the maturing Victorian morality of the nineteenth-century U.S. kept most women slaves in male-like positions as brute labour, with the anti-natal consequences that Follett details; Lives of Living Death. Morgan, Slave Women and Reproduction, implicitly focuses on the field slaves and their strategies of natality rather than the Jezebels and Mammies. [57] Moitt, Freedom from Bondage, in this volume. [58] Soares, Can Women Guide or Govern Men? [59] Jordan, Unrelenting Toil [60] See e.g. Miller, Retention, Re-Invention, and Remembering, 81–121. [61] Brown and Inniss, Slave Family. [62] Barrow, Living in Sin, 249 quoted in Brown and Inniss, Slave Family; see also Cottias, Gender and Republican Citizenship. [63] Cottias, Gender and Republican Citizenship. [64] White, Ar'n't I A Woman?; Cottias, Gender and Republican Citizenship. [65] Brown and Inniss, Slave Family. [66] See Campbell, Miers, and Miller (eds.), Women in Slavery, and Campbell, Miers, and Miller (eds.), Children in Slavery (in preparation).