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Africa into the Americas? : slavery and women, the family, and the gender division of labor / Claire Robertson -- Women, work, and health under plantation slavery in the United States / Richard H. Steckel -- Cycles of work and of childbearing : seasonality in women's lives on low country plantations / Cheryll Ann Cody -- Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century / Mary Karasch -- Loose, idle and disorderly : slave women in the eighteenth-century Charleston marketplace / Rovert Olwell -- Black female slaves and white households in Barbados / Hilary Beckles -- Black homes, white homilies : perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil / Robert W. Slenes -- Suffer with them till death : slave women and their children in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King -- Gender convention, ideals, and identity among antebellum Virginia slave women / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies / Barbara Bush -- From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763 / David Barry Gasper -- Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean / Bernard Moitt -- Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue / David P. Geggus -- Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Franc̦ais / Susan M. Socolow -- Urban slavery, urban freedom : the manumission of Jacquline Lemelle / L. Virginia Gould. |
