Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains n...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
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| Series: | Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures ;
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429715106719 |
| Summary: | This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781134268702 9781134268696 9780203676011 |
