Author | : Henrice Altink |
File Size | : 55,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 22 June 2005 |
ISBN | : 9781134268696 |
Pages | : 269 pages |
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition 1780 1838 by Henrice Altink Book PDF 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.