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"""Morrissey has probed and recast major theoretical questions about slavery. This book will be useful not only to sociologists, but also to social and economic historians, anthropologists, scholars engaged in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean studies, and those interested in third world social and economic development and underdevelopment.""--Richard B. Sheridan, author of Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies ""A significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the field of historical sociology in general and to the literature on slavery in particular. This book contains rich materials on such diverse topics as gender ratios, household economics, work on the plantation, the slave family and women's position in it, fertility, fecundity, sex, and punishment. An additional strength is its comparative focus.""--Jill S. Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Sociology, Florida State University"

Morrissey has probed and recast major theoretical questions about slavery. This book will be useful not only to sociologists, but also to social and economic historians, anthropologists, scholars engaged in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean studies, and those interested in third world social and economic development and underdevelopment.--Richard B. Sheridan, author of Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies A significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the field of historical sociology in general and to the literature on slavery in particular. This book contains rich materials on such diverse topics as gender ratios, household economics, work on the plantation, the slave family and women's position in it, fertility, fecundity, sex, and punishment. An additional strength is its comparative focus.--Jill S. Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Sociology, Florida State University

"""Morrissey has probed and recast major theoretical questions about slavery. This book will be useful not only to sociologists, but also to social and economic historians, anthropologists, scholars engaged in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean studies, and those interested in third world social and economic development and underdevelopment.""--Richard B. Sheridan, author of Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies ""A significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the field of historical sociology in general and to the literature on slavery in particular. This book contains rich materials on such diverse topics as gender ratios, household economics, work on the plantation, the slave family and women's position in it, fertility, fecundity, sex, and punishment. An additional strength is its comparative focus.""--Jill S. Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Sociology, Florida State University ""This study is an important addition to the literature. Morrissey pays particular attention to the plight of slave women, but she does so with sensitivity to their relations with slave men, free masters, and children in different contexts and over time.""--American Journal of Sociology ""The book is clearly written with an impressive intellectual style and certainly constitutes required reading for all historians of the Caribbean, feminists or otherwise.""--American Historical Review"

Morrissey has probed and recast major theoretical questions about slavery. This book will be useful not only to sociologists, but also to social and economic historians, anthropologists, scholars engaged in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean studies, and those interested in third world social and economic development and underdevelopment. --Richard B. Sheridan, author of Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies A significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the field of historical sociology in general and to the literature on slavery in particular. This book contains rich materials on such diverse topics as gender ratios, household economics, work on the plantation, the slave family and women's position in it, fertility, fecundity, sex, and punishment. An additional strength is its comparative focus. --Jill S. Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Sociology, Florida State University

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Marietta Morrissey is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Toledo and an independent consultant on higher education. She is a former professor of sociology and dean of humanities and social sciences at Montclair State University.

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