A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655β1844 |
A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655β1844
University of The West Indies Press
2006
400 pages
6 x 9
Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8
Author:
Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009)
Edited by:
Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal
University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Verene A. Shepherd, University Director
Centre for Gender & Dev Std-RC: Centre Research/Teaching
University of The West Indies, Mona
Contents
- List of Tables
- Editors’ Introduction: Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd
- Author’s Preface
- Part 1: The Female Arrivants, 1655-1770
- Chapter 1: The Arrivals ofWhite Women
- Chapter 2: The Arrivals of Black Women
- Chapter 3: The Growth of the Mulatto Group
- Part 2: Creole Slave Society, 1770-1834
- Chapter 4: The White Woman in Jamaican Slave Society
- Chapter 5: The White Woman: Legal Status, Family, Philanthropy and Gender Constraints
- Chapter 6: The Black Woman: Demographic Profile, Occupation and Violent Abuse
- Chapter 7: The Black Woman: Agency, Identity and Voice
- Chapter 8: The Mulatto Woman in Jamaican Slave Society
- Part 3: Postscript, 1834-1844
- Chapter 9: The Beginnings of a Free Society, 1834-1844
- Afterword: Recollections into a Journey of a Rebel Past
- Appendix: Population: St James Parish
- Notes
- Author’s Bibliography
- Editors’ Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author