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Taking Jamaica as its focus of study, this book analyzes three debates about slave women in the period 1780-1838 which were central to the competing discourses of slavery and abolition: motherhood, marriage and flogging.

Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838 examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explain the purposes that these representations served. Henrice Altink shows how the representations were linked to plantation practices, slave laws, and metropolitan discourses,...

This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women s lives.