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Women and Slavery in the British Caribbean:
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| URL: | http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/sites/prince/ |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth Bohls, Assistant Professor, English | |
| Description: | Transporting Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas and the islands of the Caribbean as slaves began shortly after Columbus "discovered" the New World in 1492 and continued until the late 1800's. This massive, involuntary population movement changed these areas forever; slave descendants are in the majority on many Caribbean islands today. England, France, Spain and Holland profited hugely from the sugar plantations on their island colonies, run with slave labor. We may think of this tropical region today as a vacation paradise, but Caribbean slavery was more brutal than slavery in the southern U.S. What was it like to be a slave? What were women's lives like in slavery? Of the hundreds of slave women who worked on British islands from 1623 to 1833, when Britain became the first major nation to emancipate its slaves, only one has left us her story in her own words. Mary Prince, born into slavery in late eighteenth-century Bermuda, walked away from her owners in London in 1828 and dictated her life story to abolitionists for publication. This site provides materials to put her moving story into its larger context. | |
| Design: | Daniel D. Gilfillan, Ph.D. |
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| FHP Director: | Judith Musick, Ph.D. | |
| FHP Research Associates: | Jan Emerson, Ph.D. Daniel Gilfillan, Ph.D. |
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| Faculty Advisors & Contributors: | Barbara Altmann, Ph.D. Louise Bishop, Ph.D. Regina Psaki, Ph.D. Stephanie Wood, Ph.D. |
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| Funding Sources: | Center for the Study of Women in Society | |
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| Username & Password Access: | Due to the many factors involved with copyright and the electronic medium, each of the web sites in our Digital Teaching Unit collection is password-protected. If you would like to utilize or view any of the sites for educational use, please contact Stephanie Wood and please include in your e-mail the name of the site you would like to access, your school affiliation, and the subject area you teach. Thank you for your interest. |
