More than chattel : Black women and slavery in the Americas

PrefaceAfrica and the Americas1. Africa in to the Americas? Slavery and Women, the Family and the Sexual Division of Labor—Claire RobertsonLife and Labor2. Women, Work, and Health under Plantation Slavery in the Untied States—Richard H. Steckel3. Cycles of Work and of Childbearing: Seasonality in Women's Lives on Low Country Plantations—Cheryll Ann Cody4. Slave Women on the Brazilian Frontier in the Nineteenth Century—Mary Karasch5. "Loose, idle and Disorderly": Slave Women int he Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace—Robert A. Olwell6. Black Female Slaves and White Households in Barbados—Hilary Beckles7. Black Homes, White Homilies: Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil—Robert W. Slenes8. "Suffer with Them Till Death": Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America—Wilma King9. Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity Among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women—Brenda E. StevensonSlavery, REsistance, and Freedom10. Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies—Barbara Bush11. From "the Sense of their Slavery": Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632–1763—David Barry Gaspar12. Slave Women and Resistance in the French Caribbean—Bernard Moitt13. Slave and Free Colored Women in Saint Domingue—David P. Geggus14. Economic Roles of the Free Women of Color of Cap Francais—Susan M. Socolow15. Urban Slavery, Urban Freedom: The Manumission of Jacqueline Lemelle—L. Virginia GouldSelected Bibliography Celia E. Naylor-OjurongbeNotes on ContributorsIndex