A historical study of women in Jamaica : 1655-1844 / Lucille Mathurin Mair ; edited and with an introduction by Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd.
- Title
- A historical study of women in Jamaica : 1655-1844 / Lucille Mathurin Mair ; edited and with an introduction by Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd.
- Published by
- Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press : Centre for Gender and Development Studies, 2006.
- Author
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- Description
- xxxi, 496 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- An exposure of women as agents of history - a path-breaking achievement at a time when Caribbean historiography ignored women. The white woman consumed, the coloured woman served and the black woman laboured.
- Uniform title
- Black women writers series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Contents
- Ch. 1. arrivals of white women -- Ch. 2. arrivals of black women -- Ch. 3. growth of the Mulatto group -- Ch. 4. white woman in Jamaican slave society -- Ch. 5. white woman : legal status, family, philanthropy and gender constraints -- Ch. 6. black woman : demographic profile, occupation and violent abuse -- Ch. 7. black woman : agency, identity and voice -- Ch. 8. Mulatto woman in Jamaican slave society -- Ch. 9. beginnings of a free society, 1834-1844 -- Afterword : recollections into a journey of a rebel past -- App. Population : St. James parish.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Based on the author's 1974 Ph.D. dissertation.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-474) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain