Women Field Workers in Jamaica during Slavery
Title | Women Field Workers in Jamaica during Slavery |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2001 |
Authors | Mair, Lucille Mathurin |
Editor | Moore, Brian L., B.W. Higman, Carl Campbell, and Patrick Bryan |
Book Title | Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society |
Pagination | 180-192 |
Publisher | University of the West Indies Press |
City | Kingston, Jamaica |
Abstract | Any attempt to reconstruct the past of Jamaican female agricultural labour is bedevilled by the colonial/metropolitan orientation of much of Caribbean historiography. This is perhaps inevitable, given the primacy of European strategic and commercial interests in the establishment of New World plantations. As a result the enslaved African men and women who laboured in those plantations have been submerged in the archives, for centuries, barely making it to the footnotes. This chapter attempts to rectify women's near-invisibility in the historiography of slave labor in the Caribbean by analyzing literature to present a fuller picture of the field work in which women engaged during slavery. |
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