Bøker av Henrice Altink

Taking Jamaica as its focus of study, this book analyzes three debates about slave women in the period 1780-1838 that were central to the competing discourses of slavery and abolition: motherhood, marriage, and flogging. This title also examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences.

This study of the construction of black womanhood in Jamaica between 1865 and 1938 sheds new light on the struggle for full and equal citizenship of people of African descent in the post-emancipation British Caribbean. -- .