Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Women in Barbados

by Hilary McD. Beckles

Book Overview

Although we are learning a lot from historians about the lives of slaves in the United States, we still know little about slavery in the Caribbean. Hilary Beckles's book on the social, economic, and labor history of slave women in Barbados, from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, is a major addition to this literature. Drawing on contemporary documents and records, newspapers, and personal correspondence, Beckles reveals how slave...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515114
• ISBN13: 9780813515113
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"