Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Note on Sources xi Introduction 1 1 ‘‘Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder’’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology 12 2 ‘‘The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe’’: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles 50 3 ‘‘The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers’’: Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies 69 4 ‘‘Hannah and Hir Children’’: Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women 107 5 ‘‘Women’s Sweat’’: Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 144 6 ‘‘Deluders and Seducers of Each Other’’: Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance 166 Epilogue 196 Notes 203 Bibliography 251 Index 273 Acknowledgments 277 ...