| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. By Bernard Moitt. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xx, 217 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-253-33913-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-253-21452-1.)

This book is a substantial contribution to the historical literature in English about women and slavery. As Professor Bernard Moitt explains, the history of the Caribbean is seriously fragmented by literature in several major languages that tend to deal with the Caribbean narrowly. For example, when historians writing in English say 'Caribbean,' they very often mean the British or Anglophone Caribbean. There are notable historical works about slavery in the Anglophone Caribbean; some are about women and slavery in Barbados (see Hilary McD. Beckles, Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados, 1989), and there are several sociologically oriented books about women and slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean (for example, Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650- 1838, 1990, and Marietta Morrissey, Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean, 1989). This book broadens the subject to include all four major countries of the French Caribbean: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue/Haiti, and French Guiana. . . .

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