- Bank , A. 1991 . ‘Slavery in Cape Town, 1806–1834’ University of Cape Town . (MA thesis, Liz Host, personal communication, in another context
- Ibid.
- Ibid. e.g. 108
- Weeks , J. 1981 . Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800 London See, for example
- Worden , N. A. 1985 . Slavery in Dutch South Africa Cambridge
- Walker , C. , ed. 1990 . Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 Cape Town See ed.(One of the first relevant articles was Belinda Bozzoli's ‘Marxism, Feminism and South African Studies’, Journal of Southern African Studies 9, 2 (1983)
- Angerman , A. , eds. 1989 . “ ‘Ethnocentrism in the Study of Algerian Women’ ” . In Current Issues in Women's History London and New York See Willie Jansen's definitions of these terms in her
- Elphick , R. and Shell , R. 1989 . “ ‘Intergroup Relations: Khoikhoi, Settlers, Slaves and Free Blacks, 1652–1795’ ” . In The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840 Edited by: Elphick , R. and Giliomee , H. Cape Town This obsession is not restricted to Afrikaner historians, but finds its place in mainstream Anglophone historiography: see
- Penn , N. 1989 . “ ‘Land, Labour and Livestock in the Western Cape during the Eighteenth Century’ ” . In The Angry Divide: Social and Economic History of the Western Cape Edited by: James , W. and Simons , M. 4 Cape Town and Johannesburg Frontier studies loom large here: see, in eds, (‘there is a very real sense in which the labour relations that evolved [on the frontier]…may be regarded as being prototypical of subsequent South African racial attitudes.’
- The same issues and models are applied to Brazil; the Marxist modes of production scholarship emanating from Brazil has had no influence at all on the debates on slavery with which North American and Caribbean scholars have been concerned
- Worden . Slavery
- Ross , R. and van Duin , P. ‘The Economy of the Cape Colony in the Eighteenth Century’ . Intercontinenta , 7 See, forexample, (Leiden, 1987)
- Due partly to the nature of the sources; research in the United States is more qualitative for the same reason
- Higman , B. 1976 . Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834 London
- This is discussed further below, and also in greater detail in P. van der Spuy, forthcoming MA thesis.See Bank, ‘Slavery’, 108;R. Shell, ‘Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1680–1731’, vol. 1 (PhD thesis, Yale University, 1986), 65
- Blkins , S. 1959 . Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life Chicago
- Worden . 1983 . Slavery; R. Ross, Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa London
- Shell , R. ‘Slavery’ R. Shell, ‘Tender Ties: The Women of the Slave Society’ (Paper presented to the ‘Cape Slavery—and After’ Conference, University of Cape Town, 10–11 Aug. 1989)
- Jones , J. 1985 . Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and Family from Slavery to the Present New York See, for example, (M. Ellison, ‘Resistance to Oppression: Black Women's Response to Slavery in the US’, Slavery and Abolition 4 (1983);E. Fox-Genovese, ‘Strategies and Forms of Resistance: Focus on Slave Women in the United States’, in G. Okihiro, ed., In Resistance (Amherst, 1986);R. Reddock, ‘Women and Slavery in the Caribbean: a Feminist Perspective’, Latin American Perspectives 9, 44, (Winter 1985)
- Genovese , E. D. 1974 . Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made New York
- The ‘problem’ for the Caribbean is the persistence of illegitimacy, or the reluctance of black women to marry black men legally
- Goode , J. 1960 . ‘Illegitimacy in the Caribbean Social Structure’ . American Sociological Review , 25 ( 1 ) Feb. See
- Scully , P. ‘Liberating the Family? Thoughts on the Private Meanings of Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, 1834–1842’ (Paper presented to the ‘Cape Slavery—and After’ Conference).See also her forthcoming Michigan University PhD thesis
- Gutman , H. 1976 . The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925 Oxford (See also H. Gutman, ‘Persistent Myths about the Afro-American Family’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 6, 2 (Autumn 1975)
- Fox-Genovese , E. ‘Placing Women's History in History’ . New Left Review , 133 (May-June 1982)
- Patterson , O. 1982 . Slavery and Social Deatli: A Comparative Study Harvard (See also O. Patterson, The Sociology of Slavery (New York, 1969). The point is that much progress has been made in the interpretation of slave families since the publication of Patterson's books
- Bank, ‘Slavery’, 111. Beckles, Bush, Craton and others have questioned the universality of the matrifocal family.See below
- These apparent contradictions are explored in ray ‘Slave Women and the Family in Cape Town after the Abolition of the Slave Trade’ (Paper to be presented to the Cape Town History Project Workshop, University of Cape Town, November 1991)
- Bank . ‘Slavery’ R. Ross, ‘Oppression, Sexuality and Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope’, Historical Reflections, 6, 2 (1979);Shell, ‘Slavery’. Worden cited no such literature in his Slavery in Dutch South Africa either, despite the existence of early works such as that of Mathurin
- This tendency is also evident in South African slave historiography, as I pointed out earlier. In fact the high sex ratios at the Cape in the eighteenth century tended towards ignoring women slaves altogether, their significance lies only in their absence
- Beckles shares these concerns, but does not attempt to popularize the format of his book
- Chapter 1: ‘Outnumbering Men: A Demographic Survey.’ See below
- Both for slave and free, there was normally a female majority: see, for example, p. 9
- Where one mananger tried to increase the proportion of males on his plantation, production fell so dramatically that he had to revert to the norm for Barbados of a female majority in the first labour gang: p. 14
- Higman , B. Slave Population Barry Higman's quantitative study of Jamaica after abolition is an exception to this rule; he overturned previously accepted myths, such as those relating productivity and sexual reproduction to sex ratios
- Laws against slave marketeering were promulgated in 1733, amended in 1749;1774, amended in 1779 and 1784;in 1826, the Sunday market was banned
- Beckles's classification
- Perhaps the distinction could be made between Slave Women as Svomen's history' and Natural Rebels as ‘feminist history’, in that Bush is writing specifically for women, and is concerned with women's issues per se. Beckles's concern is to provide a feminist revision of Caribbean labour history
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