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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Though their stories appear only briefly in historical records, Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women. Fuentes t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fuentes, Marisa J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: Philadelphia : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Women slaves > Barbados > Bridgetown > Social conditions > 18th century.
Women > Barbados > Bridgetown > Social conditions > 18th century.
Slavery > Barbados > Bridgetown > History > 18th century.
Bridgetown (Barbados) > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century.
Ethnic relations.
Slavery.
Women slaves > Social conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Barbados > Bridgetown.
Sklavin.
Bridgetown > Barbados.
1700-1799
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Jane : fugitivity, space, and structures of control in Bridgetown
  • Rachael and Joanna : power, historical figuring, and troubling freedom
  • Agatha : white women, slave owners, and the dialectic of racialized gender
  • Molly : enslaved women, condemnation, and gendered terror
  • "Venus" : abolition discourse, gendered violence, and the archive.