ABOUT THIS BOOK

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who—as these two volumes reveal—probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged.

Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites—as “scheming Jezebels,” ample and devoted “mammies,” or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse—that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old—concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as “wives” and “nieces,” taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion.

Volume 2 Contributors: Henrice Altin,k Laurence Brown, Myriam Cottias, Laura F. Edwards, Richard Follett, Tara Inniss, Barbara Krauthamer, Joseph C. Miller, Bernard Moitt, Kenneth Morgan, Claire Robertson, Marsha Robinson, Felipe Smith, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Gwyn Campbell, Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History at McGill University, is the author and editor of many works, includingAbolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar.

Suzanne Miers is professor emerita of history at Ohio University. She is the author of Slavery in the Twentieth Century and coeditor of The End of Slavery and other books.

Joseph C. Miller is the T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Kings and Kinsmen, Way of Death, and works on the world history of slavery.

REVIEWS

“I believe these essays have an audience among anyone interested not only in the intersecting histories of slavery and women, but also those who are intrigued more generally by the historian's craft.”
— Susan E. O’Donovan, coeditor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 and author of Slavery's Legacies: Becoming Free in the Cotton South

“Nicely, (Women and Slavery, Vol. 2) reads as a conversation—among people who disagree—about the 'second sex' and slavery…. The collection should be commended for its panoply of concerns and authors and its breadth and depth of historical research. ”
— University of Toronto Quarterly

“(T)he anthology raises a number of important questions and provides scholarship of the highest quality on a subject that has too often been omitted from early studies of slavery.”
— The Historian

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic
A Tribute to Suzanne Miers
Martin A. Klein and Richard Roberts 000
Preface 000
Introduction
Joseph C. Miller 1
I. Women in Domestic Slavery across Africa and Asia
1. Women, Marriage, and Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Nineteenth Century
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 000
2. Sex, Power, and Family Life in the Harem: A Comparative Study
Martin A. Klein 000
3. The Law of the (White) Father: Psychoanalysis, ¿Paternalism,¿ and the Historiography of Cape Slave Women
Sharifa Ahjum 000
II. Women in Islamic Households
4. Mjakazi, Mpambe, Mjoli, Suria: Female Slaves in Swahili Sources
Katrin Bromber 000
5. Prices for Female Slaves and Changes in Their Life Cycle: Evidence from German East Africa
Jan-Georg Deutsch 000
III. Women in Households on the Fringes of Christianity and Commerce
6. Thralls and Queens: Female Slavery in the Medieval Norse Atlantic
Kirsten A. Seaver 000
7. African Slave Women in Egypt, ca. 1820 to the Plague of 1834¿35
George Michael La Rue 000
8. Female Inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850¿80
Fred Morton 000
IV. Women in Imperial African Worlds
9. Women, Gender History, and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Ethiopia
Timothy Fernyhough (¿) 000
10. Female Bondage in Imperial Madagascar, 1820¿95
Gwyn Campbell 000
11. Internal Markets or an Atlantic-Sahara Divide? How Women Fit into the Slave Trade of West Africa
Paul E. Lovejoy 000
12. Women, Household Instability, and the End of Slavery in Banamba and Gumbu, French Soudan, 1905¿12
Richard Roberts 000
V. Women in Commercial Outposts of Modern Europe
13. From Pariahs to Patriots: Women Slavers in Nineteenth-Century ¿Portuguese¿ Guinea
Philip J. Havik 000
14. It All Comes Out in the Wash: Engendering Archaeological Interpretations of Slavery
Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan 000
15. Free Women of Color and Socioeconomic Marginality in Mauritius, 1767¿1830
Richard B. Allen 000
Contributors 000
Index 000
Volume Two: The Modern Atlantic
A Tribute to Suzanne Miers
Martin A. Klein and Richard Roberts 000
Preface 000
Acknowledgments (GC) 000
Introduction
Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller 000
I. The Reproductive Biology of Sugar Slavery
1. Slave Women and Reproduction in Jamaica, ca. 1776¿1834
Kenneth Morgan 000
2. Gloomy Melancholy: The Reproductive Lives of Louisiana Slave Women, 1840¿60
Richard Follett 000
II. Women¿s Initiatives under Slavery
3. Can Women Guide and Govern Men? Gendering Politics among African Catholics in Colonial Brazil
Mariza de Carvalho Soares 000
4. A Particular Kind of Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, Kinship, and Freedom in the American Southeast
Barbara Krauthamer 000
5. Enslaved Women and the Law: Paradoxes of Subordination in the Postrevolutionary Carolinas
Laura F. Edwards 000
III. Rebuilding Lives in the Caribbean: Emancipation and Its Aftermath
6. Pricing Freedom in the French Caribbean: Women, Men, Children, and Redemption from Slavery in the 1840s
Bernard Moitt 000
7. Slave Women, Family Strategies, and the Transition to Freedom in Barbados, 1834¿41
Laurence Brown and Tara Inniss 000
8. Free but Minor: Slave Women, Citizenship, Respectability, and Social Antagonism in the French Antilles, 1830¿90
Myriam Cottias 000
IV. Representing Women Slaves: Masters¿ Fantasies and Memories in Fiction
9. Deviant and Dangerous: Proslavery Representations of Jamaican Slave Women¿s Sexuality, ca. 1780¿1834
Henrice Altink 000
10. The Condition of the Mother: The Legacy of Slavery in African American Literature of the Jim Crow Era
Felipe Smith 000
V. Historiographical Reflections on Slavery and Women
11. Re-modeling Slavery as if Women Mattered
Claire Robertson and Marsha Robinson 000
12. Disoriented, Dependent, Domiciled, and Dominated: Slaving as a History of Women
Joseph C. Miller 000
Contributors 000
Index 000