Women and Slavery, Volume One

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves whoas these two volumes revealprobably 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 whitesas scheming Jezebels, ample and devoted mammies, or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abusethat revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Oldconcealed 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. Volume 1 Contributors Sharifa Ahjum Richard B. Allen Katrin Bromber Gwyn Campbell Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch Jan-Georg Deutsch Timothy Fernyhough Philip J. Havik Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan Martin A. Klein George Michael La Rue Paul E. Lovejoy Fred Morton Richard Roberts Kirsten A. Seaver