Gender Analyses of Slavery

Gender Analyses of Slavery

Required:
 Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Slavery in New World Slavery (2004).
Recommended:
 David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, eds., More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (1996).
 Bernard Moitt, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles (2001).
 Hilary Beckles, “Property Rights in Pleasure: The Marketing of Slave Women’s Sexuality, in Roderick McDonald, ed., West Indies Accounts (1996).
 Digna Casteñeda, “The Female Slave in Cuba. . .,” Shepherd, ed, Engendering History.
 James Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, Ch. 2 (2003).
 Deborah Gray White, Arn't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985).
 Betty Wood, Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (1995).

To Think About ~ What effects do these historians see slavery having had on the family structures of enslaved Africans? In particular, how do they see women’s lives impacted by the double burdens of production and reproduction? What cultural consequences do they argue stemmed from the gradual emergence of a creole population rather than a predominately African-born population?