Title Ghosts of slavery : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / Jenny Sharpe.

Publication Info.	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	xxvi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.
Contents	Introduction : the haunting of history -- "The rebels old obeah woman" : history as spirit possession -- "An incomparable nurse" : the obi of domesticity -- "Our history was truly broken" : writing back to a slave past -- "A very troublesome woman" : who speaks for the morality of slave women?
Subject	West Indian literature (English) -- History and criticism.
	West Indian literature (English)
	Slavery in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
	Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797. Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam.
	Prince, Mary. History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave.
	Women, Black -- West Indies -- Biography -- History and criticism.
	Women, Black.
	West Indies.
	Biography.
	Enslaved women -- West Indies -- Biography -- History and criticism.
	Enslaved women.
	Slave rebellions -- West Indies -- Historiography.
	Slave rebellions.
	Historiography.
	Enslaved persons' writings -- History and criticism.
	Enslaved persons' writings.
	Joanna, active 18th century -- In literature.
	Joanna, active 18th century.
	Women and literature -- West Indies.
	Women and literature.
	Prince, Mary -- In literature.
	Prince, Mary.
	West Indies -- In literature.
	Women, Black, in literature.
	Women, Black, in literature.
	Nannies in literature.
ISBN	0816637229 hardcover alkaline paper
	0816637237 paperback alkaline paper