Laboring women: reproduction and gender in the making of New World slavery

Contents

1. "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder" : Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology -- 2. "The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe" : The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles -- 3. "The Breedings Shall Goe with Theri Mothers" : Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies -- 4. "Hannah and Hir Children" : Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women -- 5. "Women's Sweat" : Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World -- 6. "Deluders and Seducers of Each Other" : Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance