Author: Lucille Mathurin
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789768017246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.
The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery
Author: Lucille Mathurin
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789768017246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789768017246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.
The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery
Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766402068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766402068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.
The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery; Illustrations by Dennis RANSTON.
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Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Languages : en
Pages : 41
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A Kick in the Belly
Author: Stella Dadzie
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839763884
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation. Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who played a vital role in developing a culture of slave resistance across the Caribbean. Dadzie follows a savage trail from Elmina Castle in Ghana and the horrors of the Middle Passage, as slaves were transported across the Atlantic, to the sugar plantations of Jamaica and beyond. She reveals women who were central to slave rebellions and liberation. There are African queens, such as Amina, who led a 20,000-strong army. There is Mary Prince, sold at twelve years old, never to see her sisters or mother again. Asante Nanny the Maroon, the legendary obeah sorceress, who guided the rebel forces in the Blue Mountains during the First Maroon War. Whether responding to the horrendous conditions of plantation life, the sadistic vagaries of their captors or the “peculiar burdens of their sex,” their collective sanity relied on a highly subversive adaptation of the values and cultures they smuggled from their lost homes. By sustaining or adapting remembered cultural practices, they ensured that the lives of chattel slaves retained both meaning and purpose. A Kick in the Belly makes clear that subtle acts of insubordination and conscious acts of rebellion came to undermine the very fabric of West Indian slavery.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839763884
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation. Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who played a vital role in developing a culture of slave resistance across the Caribbean. Dadzie follows a savage trail from Elmina Castle in Ghana and the horrors of the Middle Passage, as slaves were transported across the Atlantic, to the sugar plantations of Jamaica and beyond. She reveals women who were central to slave rebellions and liberation. There are African queens, such as Amina, who led a 20,000-strong army. There is Mary Prince, sold at twelve years old, never to see her sisters or mother again. Asante Nanny the Maroon, the legendary obeah sorceress, who guided the rebel forces in the Blue Mountains during the First Maroon War. Whether responding to the horrendous conditions of plantation life, the sadistic vagaries of their captors or the “peculiar burdens of their sex,” their collective sanity relied on a highly subversive adaptation of the values and cultures they smuggled from their lost homes. By sustaining or adapting remembered cultural practices, they ensured that the lives of chattel slaves retained both meaning and purpose. A Kick in the Belly makes clear that subtle acts of insubordination and conscious acts of rebellion came to undermine the very fabric of West Indian slavery.
Testing the Chains
Author: Michael Craton
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801475283
Category : Slave insurrections
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801475283
Category : Slave insurrections
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Ordeal of Free Labor in the British West Indies
Author: William Grant Sewell
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Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Four Women's Views of Society in the British West Indies During Slavery
Author: Vilma Ferguson
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The History of Mary Prince
Author: Mary Prince
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.
Slavery and Freedom in the British West Indies
Author: Charles Buxton
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Jubilee's Experiment
Author: Dexter J. Gabriel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108845509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108845509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.