Women And Slavery : Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic

A Tribute to Suzanne Miers ix Martin A. Klein Richard Roberts Preface xv Introduction Women as Slaves and Owners of Slaves Experiences from Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Early Atlantic 1(42) Joseph C. Miller I. Women in Domestic Slavery across Africa and Asia Women, Marriage, and Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Nineteenth Century 43(20) Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch Sex, Power, and Family Life in the Harem A Comparative Study 63(20) Martin A. Klein The Law of the (White) Father Psychoanalysis, ``Paternalism,''and the Historiography of Cape Slave Women 83(28) Sharifa Ahjum II. Women in Islamic Households Mjakazi, Mpambe, Mjoli, Suria Female Slaves in Swahili Sources 111(18) Katrin Bromber Prices for Female Slaves and Changes in Their Life Cycle Evidence from German East Africa 129(18) Jan-Georg Deutsch III. Women in Households on the Fringes of Christianity and Commerce Thralls and Queens Female Slavery in the Medieval Norse Atlantic 147(22) Kirsten A. Seaver African Slave Women in Egypt, ca. 1820 to the Plague of 1834-35 169(22) George Michael La Rue Female Inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850-80 191(24) Fred Morton IV. Women in Imperial African Worlds Women, Gender History, and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Ethiopia 215(22) Timothy Fernyhough Female Bondage in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-95 237(22) Gwyn Campbell Internal Markets or an Atlantic-Sahara Divide? How Women Fit into the Slave Trade of West Africa 259(22) Paul E. Lovejoy Women, Household Instability, and the End of Slavery in Banamba and Gumbu, French Soudan, 1905-12 281(28) Richard Roberts V. Women in Commercial Outposts of Modern Europe From Pariahs to Patriots: Women Slavers in Nineteenth-Century ``Portuguese'' Guinea 309(26) Philip J. Havik It All Comes Out in the Wash: Engendering Archaeological Interpretations of Slavery 335(44) Elizabeth Grzymala Jordan Free Women of Color and Socioeconomic Marginality in Mauritius, 1767-1830 379(1) Richard B. Allen Contributors 379(6) Index 385