Unyielding Spirits
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A01=Maureen G. Elgersman
Atlantic world slavery
Author_Maureen G. Elgersman
black
Black Loyalists
Black Slave Women
Black Women
Black Women's Labor
canada
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Category=JHB
Category=NHK
chattel
Chattel Status
Code Noir
Colonial Canada
colonial legal systems
comparative study black women's enslavement
Consolidated Act
Da Costa
Early Canada
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gendered labor exploitation
International Slave Trade
Jamaican Slave
Jamaican Slave Society
John Area
Lower Canada
Maroon Communities
nova
Nova Scotia
Permanent Resident
Plantation Doctors
plantation economies
Pregnant Slave Women
reproductive oppression
resistance strategies
scotia
slave
Slave Women
slavery
societies
status
Sugar Estates
Vice Versa
women
Worthy Park
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138986565
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This comparative study uncovers the differences and similarities in the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and Jamaica, and demonstrates how differences in the exploitation of women's productive and reproductive labor caused slavery to falter in Canada and excel in the Caribbean. The research suggests that while the majority of Black women enslaved in early Canada were domestics, the majority of Jamaican women were field laborers, often performing some of the most labor-intensive work on the sugar plantations. While the efforts of the planter class to increase the number of children born to Jamaican women were not completely successful, reproduction seems to have been less of a concern in Canada where many Black women were often sold or freed because there was no use for them. The Canadian slave context seems to have allowed a broader range of material comfort as well. Despite obvious labor differences, Black women in Canada and Jamaica rejected their chattel status and condition, and resisted slavery similarly. This study is unique in its desire and ability to place Black Canadian slave women at the center of research, and then contextualize it with a Caribbean model.
