Does anyone know any book about Black female slaves and how they lived?

Question

I'm sorta writing a book about this and I need information about Black female slaves, slave auctions, slavery in the Caribbean, and the "punishments" and touture that the salves went through. My story takes place in the Early 1700s in the Caribbean and in Virginia.

Google doens't really help

Answer 1

'cane river' by Lalita tademy
and another book called "clottel" (written by some guy who was a slave)

If you really want to get pissed at white people read a book called "our ***" (not for the faint of heart)

good luck

Answer 2

There are plenty of them but most books concentrate on both men and women and people shouldn't concentrate on one gender its in poor taste. Too many people just want to focus on one gender and to me it kills the genre as a whole whether its males focused on males or vice versa.These two books "The ***** in Virginia " by the Workers Project Administration of Virginia and The Birth of Black America" about Free Blacks and slaves white and black and the secret history of about free slave settlements in Jamestown Virginia in 1619 are written about in this book by Tim Hashaw. also "Slavery in the Caribbean". Also look at Slave Uprisings in Viriginia and the Caribbean. I just read this last week excellent book. About the history of slaves being shipped back and forth from Virginia and Santo Domingo do to trying to prevent other slave uprisings.

Answer 3

Here's one:
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
by Deborah Gray White, Jacques Chazaud

Synopsis:
This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Finally, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South - their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.

Library Journal:
This book challenges the myth of the Southern mammy and other myths and attempts a richer, more complex picture of the lives of black women in slavery. Drawing on historical evidence, in cluding slave narratives and the diaries and autobiographies of white Southerners, as well as on recent scholarship on the black family, the author examines slave women's daily life, occupations, family roles, and female networks. She finds strength and resourcefulness, but denies that female slaves played a dom ineering role in their families.

Answer 4

I would go to a local college/university library and get a librarian to teach you to work their system to search for journal articles. Everything's electronic now so you probably won't have to go oldschool and search dusty old shelves of books. If you're having a hard time finding books I'm sure you'll find more articles in scholarly periodicals.

Answer 5

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall.......

Answer 6

I would try checking Hispanic sources, since Hispanics owned 95% of the slaves during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In other words, for every 1 slave that was purchased by American economic interests, Hispanics purchased 19. That's a ratio of 19 to 1.

Answer 7

Harriett Jacobs. i forget the name of her book but google her name

Answer 8

uncle tom's cabin, ummm, the one about the woman who killed her baby and he came back and haunted her. they made a movie about it with either whoopi or oprah, or both.

Answer 9

http://www.old-picture.com/american-adventure/African-Chains-Women-in.htm

Answer 10

My grandpa use to tell me storie about the past.