Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838
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 n...
Main Author: | Altink, Henrice (auth) |
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Format: | eBook |
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Taylor & Francis
2007
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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