Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition 1780–1838

<p>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.</p>