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Unyielding Spirits - Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica (Hardcover)
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Unyielding Spirits - Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica (Hardcover)
Series: Crosscurrents in African American History
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This comparative study uncovers the differences and similarities in
the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and
Jamaica, and demonstrates how differences in the exploitation of
women's productive and reproductive labor caused slavery to falter
in Canada and excel in the Caribbean. The research suggests that
while the majority of Black women enslaved in early Canada were
domestics, the majority of Jamaican women were field laborers,
often performing some of the most labor-intensive work on the sugar
plantations. While the efforts of the planter class to increase the
number of children born to Jamaican women were not completely
successful, reproduction seems to have been less of a concern in
Canada where many Black women were often sold or freed because
there was "no use for them." The Canadian slave context seems to
have allowed a broader range of material comfort as well. Despite
obvious labor differences, Black women in Canada and Jamaica
rejected their chattel status and condition, and resisted slavery
similarly. This study is unique in its desire and ability to place
Black Canadian slave women at the center of research, and then
contextualize it with a Caribbean model.
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