Moitt, Bernard — Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848 (2001) Source Information
Author: Bernard Moitt
Full Title: Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2001
Type: Secondary Source — Gendered Slavery, French Caribbean Labor, Violence, Resistance, and Manumission
Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/
Full Text: moitt women slavery.txt Status
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Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — gender-and-slavery pass focused on field labor, marronage, sexual coercion, Guadeloupe 1802, and the comparative French Antilles frame
Chapter notes: moitt women slavery ch notes
Graph review in this pass: Created solitude, marthe rose, and louis delgrès; strengthened women under slavery, guadeloupe, martinique, moc people, and moc sources Overview Moitt gives the vault one of its clearest gendered overviews of slavery in the French Caribbean. Instead of treating enslaved women as an addendum to a generic slave experience, he reconstructs how labor, domestic service, sexuality, punishment, resistance, reproduction, and manumission were shaped through gender across Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint-Domingue. That makes the book especially valuable for Haiti work even though it is not Haiti-only.