| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838. By Henrice Altink. (New York: Routledge, 2007. viii, 263 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-0-415-35026-6.)

In this monograph, Henrice Altink locates Jamaican slave women at the heart of the debate between antislavery and proslavery advocates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Altink focuses on three distinct periods—the 1780s and 1790s, when the English were contemplating the end of the slave trade; the first decades of the nineteenth century, when abolitionists pushed for an end to slavery in the British Caribbean; and the period immediately after slavery ended, when former slaves were apprenticed to their former masters, allegedly to help prepare both parties for the advent of full emancipation. Altink's study reinforces and extends conclusions other scholars have made about the changing nature of both proslavery and antislavery discourse over time and confirms the links between those debates and metropolitan discussions of such topics as race, motherhood, and prison reform.

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