Africa, the Indian Ocean World and the Medieval North Atlantic
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Campbell, Gwyn > (ed.)
- Creator
- Miers, Suzanne > [ed]
- Creator
- Miller, Joseph C. > [ed]
- Contributor
- Allen, Richard B.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 10 2007 - B
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, islam, polygamie, kolonialisme, seksueel geweld, Afrika, Azië, bundel
- Description
- Women and Slavery focuses on female slaves who probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites—as “scheming Jezebels,” ample and devoted “mammies,” or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse.These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as “wives” and “nieces,” taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion. Women and Slavery presents papers developed from an international conference organized by Gwyn Campbell.