Women, slavery and the Church Reading List

Please see below for reading list. We would encourage you to review these resources before watching the event.

Sheena Boa, Colour, class and gender in post-emancipation St. Vincent, 1834-1884 (PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 1998). 

 

Phillip Gibbs, Instructions for the Treatment of Negroes, &C. &C. &C 

 

Travis Glasson, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Oxford Academic, 2011) 

 

Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of A West India Proprietor 

 

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property
White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019)

 

Chine McDonald, God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021) 

 

Rev Mr. William Smith, A Natural History of Nevis, and the rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America (Cambridge, 1745)

 

Natalie Zacek, School of History and Classics, University of Manchester, Reading the rebels: currents of slave resistance in the eighteenth-century British West Indies

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