|
" Slavery, freedom and gender : "
edited by Brian L. Moore [and others].
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
991820
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b746190
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Slavery, freedom and gender : : the dynamics of Caribbean society /\ edited by Brian L. Moore [and others].
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Kingston, Jamaica :: University of the West Indies Press,, 2001.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xv, 297 pages :: 1 portrait ;; 24 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
976640111X
|
|
|
:
|
: 9789766401115
|
| Notes
|
:
|
Thirteen of the Elsa Goveia lectures, delivered between 1987 and 1998.
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Slavery and the rise of capitalism / Joseph E. Inikori -- Africa in the making of the Caribbean : the formative years / Colin A. Palmer -- The invention of slave society / B.W. Higman -- Slavery and the transformation of society in Cuba, 1511-1760 / Franklin W. Knight -- Planters, farmers and gardeners in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- The post-slavery labour problem revisited / Woodville K. Marshall -- Liberated Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana / Monica Schuler -- Women and resistance : "herstory" in contemporary Caribbean history / Blanca G. Silvestrini -- Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery / Lucille Mathurin Mair -- Freeing slavery : gender paradigms in the social history of Caribbean slavery / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Gendered testimony : autobiographies, diaries and letters by women as sources for Caribbean history / Bridget Brereton -- Unspeakable things unspoken : ghosts and memories in the narratives of African American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Our debt to history / Rex Nettleford.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars began as a series of lectures sponsored by the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, to honour internationally recognized Caribbean historian Elsa Goveia. The collection consists of thirteen lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. Slavery, Freedom and Gender will be particularly engaging to readers interested in Caribbean history, social history and gender studies Book jacket.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Goveia, Elsa V.
|
|
|
:
|
Goveia, Elsa,1925-1980.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Freedmen-- West Indies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Slavery-- West Indies-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Slaves-- Emancipation-- West Indies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Women slaves-- West Indies-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
15.85 history of America.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Aufsatzsammlung.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Freedmen.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Geschlechterforschung
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Geschlechterforschung.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Sklaverei
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Sklaverei.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Slavery.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Slaves-- Emancipation.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Sozialgeschichte
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Sozialgeschichte.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Women slaves.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Karibik
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Karibik.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
West Indies.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
326.973
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
HT1071.S543 2001
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
15.85bcl
|
|
|
:
|
NW 8295rvk
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Moore, Brian L.,1948-
|
| |