Taking Jamaica as its focus of study, this book analyzes three debates about slave women in the period 1780-1838 which were central to the competing discourses of slavery and abolition: motherhood, marriage and flogging.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2007-07-23
Language: English
Number of Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..