Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838. Barbara BushHouse and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. Sandra Lauderdale GrahamSlave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean. Marietta Morrissey

Signs ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Brenda Gayle Plummer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
New World ◽  
Gender Stratification ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean.

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 1002
Author(s):  
Hilary MCD. Beckles ◽  
Marietta Morrissey
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Gender Stratification ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Invisible woman: female slavery in the New World

1992 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Marion Rust
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
White Women ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Black Skin ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Definition Of

[First paragraph]Slave women in Caribbean society, 1650-1838, by BARBARA BUSH. Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1990. xiii + 190 pp. (Cloth US$ 29.95,Paper US$ 12.50) [Published simultaneously by: James Curry, London, &Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean), Kingston.]Within the plantation household: Black and White women of the Old South,by ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE. Chapel Hill: University of North CarolinaPress, 1988. xvii + 544 pp. (Cloth US$ 34.95, Paper US$ 12.95)Slave women in the New World: gender stratiftcation in the Caribbean, byMARIETTA MORRISSEY. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989. xiv +202 pp. (Cloth US$ 29.95)In a letter to his son in 1760, Chesapeake slaveowner Charles Carrol employed a curious euphemism for woman: "fair sex." Obviously, he wasn't thinking of his slaves. An attempt to remedy his negligence by considering this popular definition of eighteenth-century womanhood in relation to the females he forgot reveals this highly restrictive code to be exclusionary as well, for the difficulty of figuring out how brown or black skin can be "fair" suggests that a bondwoman in the New World was not, according to dominant ideology, a woman. Slavery made nonsense of female gender in the case of those whose labor allo wed white society its definition. A contemporary observer reveals just how thorough was the distinction between white womanly passivity and whatever unnamed oblivion was left to black females: "The labor of the slave thus becomes the substitute for that of the woman" (Smith 1980:70; Dew 1970 [1832]:36).

Atlantic World 1760–1820

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Muldrew
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
New World ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Trading Patterns ◽  
Agriculture And Environment ◽  
The Caribbean

There would have been no Atlantic world without trade. Throughout this period, the consumption of American-produced sugar, tobacco, and coffee, as well as the use of American gold and silver for money, was common throughout Europe. At the same time, the settlement of colonial emigrants and transported slave populations continued to grow and to transform the agriculture and environment of the Americas and western Africa. By the mid-eighteenth century the characteristic trading patterns of the Atlantic world were well established. The main exports at the beginning of the period from the New World were gold and silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru, as well as sugar and tobacco grown in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, together with furs and cod from Canada and forest products from New England. We should not forget that people were also traded; European traders purchased an ever-increasing number of slaves in Africa for export to the Americas. Britain emerged as the dominant trading, military, and investment force by the nineteenth century.

The Politics of Disease Control: Yellow Fever and Race in Nineteenth Century Rio de Janeiro

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Chalhoub
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
New World ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
The Times

During the first half of the nineteenth century, as cholera and yellow fever epidemics ravaged the Old and the New World alike, Brazil seemed to enjoy the reputation of being a remarkably salubrious country. In spite of its geographical position, its climate and the abundance of those elements that prevailing medical wisdom considered conducive to the more aggravated forms of disease, the fact was that Brazil long remained free of the two most visible scourges of the times.

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