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> <p><strong>Part 1: Incompetent Mothers </strong>1. Belly-Women 2. Pickeniny Mummas <strong>Part 2: Adulterous Wives</strong> 3. Deviant and Dangerous: Attitudes to Slave Women's Sexuality 4. Slave Marriage: Solution or Problem? P<strong>art 3: Unruly Workers </strong>5. The Indecency of the Lash 6. Slavery by Another Name 7. Conclusion </p>