Also known as: Bernard Moitt, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848
Last updated: April 16, 2026
A gendered overview of slavery across Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint-Domingue that reconstructs how labor, domestic service, sexuality, punishment, resistance, reproduction, and manumission were shaped through gender rather than treating enslaved women as an addendum to a generic slave experience. Moitt bridges plantation routine and revolutionary comparison, providing labor statistics on field feminization alongside accounts of the Guadeloupe 1802 figures — Solitude, Marthe-Rose, and Louis Delgrès — who belong to the broader Antillean world around the Haitian Revolution.
Moitt's Women and Slavery in the French Antilles is the main source for Solitude's pregnancy, sentencing, and execution after childbirth — situating her within the broader gendered history of the Guadeloupe 1802 resistance.
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Bernard Moitt. "Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848." Indiana University Press, 2001. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/moitt-women-slavery. Accessed 2026-05-05.