An edition of Ghosts of slavery (2002)
Ghosts of slavery
a literary archaeology of Black women's lives
By Jenny Sharpe
Publish Date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
eng
Pages
187
Description:
Examining the lives of three distinctive Caribbean women (a maroon leader, a mulatto concubine and a fugitive slave), this study explains how the diasporic experience of slavery enabled black women to claim an authority that they didn't possess in Africa.
subjects: Biography, Black Women, Historiography, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Slave insurrections, Slavery in literature, Slaves' writings, West Indian literature (English), Women and literature, Women slaves, Women, Black, in literature, Stedman, john gabriel, 1744-1797, West indian literature, Slaves' writings, history and criticism, Nannies in literature
People: Joanna (18th cent), John Gabriel Stedman (1744-1797), Mary Prince, Nanny
Places: West Indies