{"product_id":"women-and-slavery-volume-one-africa-the-indian-ocean-world-and-the-medieval-north-atlantic-hardback-9780821417232","title":"Women and Slavery, Volume One; Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic (Hardback) 9780821417232","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen and Slavery, Volume One\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrica, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGwyn Campbell (Edited by), Suzanne Miers (Edited by), Joseph C. Miller (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821417232\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"…(\u003ci\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Slavery, Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e clearly demonstrates that far from simply being a by-product of a trade in male slaves, in many societies women were the prime focus of the slave trade.…\" (Africa: The Journal of the IAI) \"The geographic and methodological diversity of the chapters constitute one of the collection's salient appeals.… The two volumes challenge us to reconsider women and slavery and appreciate the strongly gendered nature of servitude in world history.\" (African Studies Review) \"\u003ci\u003eWomen and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e offers an exciting addition to the scholarship on gender and slavery. Students and professors alike will find this volume provocative and useful in examining the role of women in slavery and slave trades.… This collection, and its sister publication, \u003ci\u003eWomen and Slavery: The Modern Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, by the same editors, work masterfully together and could serve as the basis for an entire course on women and slavery.\" (International Journal of African Historical Studies) \"All these contributions broaden and deepen the historian's craft as well as our understanding of the gendered nature of slave-life in each instance. We learn of queens and thralls struggling to survive, of the lives of slave-washerwomen, and the significance of 'maturity' among female slaves…. Measured in terms of (Sue Miers's) own career, this volume shows just what a long way the historiography of Africanist slavery has come and where it yet needs to go.\" (Slavery and Abolition) \"I believe these essays have an audience among anyone interested not only in the intersecting histories of slavery and women, but also those who are intrigued more generally by the historian's craft.\" \"Women and Slavery (Volumes 1 \u0026amp; 2) makes a significant contribution to our understanding of slavery in a global context\" and \"showing the centrality of women to slave systems around the world.\" (Journal of Global History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who—as these two volumes reveal—probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged.\u003cbr\u003e Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites—as \"scheming Jezebels,\" ample and devoted \"mammies,\" or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse—that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old—concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as \"wives\" and \"nieces,\" taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion.\u003cbr\u003e Women and Slavery presents papers developed from an international conference organized by Gwyn Campbell.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVolume 1 Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sharifa Ahjum\u003cbr\u003e Richard B. Allen\u003cbr\u003e Katrin Bromber\u003cbr\u003e Gwyn Campbell\u003cbr\u003e Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch\u003cbr\u003e Jan-Georg Deutsch\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Fernyhough\u003cbr\u003e Philip J. Havik\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan\u003cbr\u003e Martin A. Klein\u003cbr\u003e George Michael La Rue\u003cbr\u003e Paul E. Lovejoy\u003cbr\u003e Fred Morton\u003cbr\u003e Richard Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Kirsten A. 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