from European to atlantic world frontiers
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Foster, William Henry
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2010
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, etniciteit, seksualiteit, leefvormen, macht, inheemse volkeren, islam
- Description
- Gender, family and sexual relations defined human slavery from its classical origins in Europe to the rise and fall of race-based slavery in the Americas. Foster explores the importance of men and women to slaveholding across these eras. He argues that at the heart of the successive European institutions of slavery at home and in the New World was the question of women's ability to exert mastery. Facing the challenge to play the 'good mother' in public and private, free women from Rome to Muslim North Africa, to the indigenous tribes of North America, to the antebellum plantations of the southern United States found themselves having to economically manage slaves, servants and captives. At the same time, they had to protect their reputations from various forms of attack and themselves from vilification on a number of fronts