Gobbets

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl chs 5 & 6
• Northup chs 13, 14, & 18

Questions

How did the female slave's experience differ to that of the male? How did slave women respond to sexual advances by white men? How did slave women balance the needs of husband, children and owner?

Core Reading

• Jones, Jacqueline, Labor of love, labor of sorrow: black women, work and the family from slavery to the present. Ch 1
• Stephanie Camp, The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Plantation South, 1830-1861 JSH 68 (Aug 2002) 533-72
• Sergio Lussana 'No Band of Brothers Could Be More Loving': Enslaved Male Homosociality, Friendship, and Resistance in the Antebellum American South' Journal of Social History 46:4 (2013), 872-895.

E-resources

• Perrin, Liese, 'Resisting Reproduction: Reconsidering slave contraception in the Old South' JAS 35.2 (2001), 255-274 
• Darlene Clark Hine "Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South": Twenty Years After' The Journal of African American History 92, (2007), 13-21
• Doddington, D. Contesting slave masculinity in the American South.
• Doddington, D. Informal economies and masculine hierarchies in slave communities of the U.S. South, 1800-1865. Gender and History 27 (2015), 773-787.
• Ellison, Mary, 'Resistance to oppression: black women's responses to slavery in the United States' S&A 4(1983), 56-63
• Wood, Betty, 'Some aspects of female resistance to chattel slavery in lowcountry Georgia, 1763-1815', Historical Journal, XXX, (1987), 603-622. 
• Gundersen, Joan, 'The double bonds of race & sex: black and white women in a colonial Virginia parish' JSH 52 (1986) 352-372 
• Lockley, Tim, 'Crossing the Race Divide: Interracial sex in antebellum Savannah' S&A, 18, (1997), 159-173.
• Rothman, Joshua, "Notorious in the Neighborhood": An Interracial Family in Early National and Antebellum Virginia JSH (2001)
• Steckel, R, 'Miscegenation and the American Slave Schedules' JIH (1980) 

• Lussana, Sergio ‘To See Who Was Best on the Plantation: Enslaved Fighting Contests and Masculinity in the Antebellum Plantation South’, Journal of Southern History, 76:4 (November, 2010), pp. 901-922.

Further reading

• Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, Within the plantation household: black and white women of the old South.
• Clinton, Catherine, The plantation mistress: the women's world in the Old South 
• White, Deborah, Ar'n't I a woman?: female slaves in the plantation South.
• Lussana, Sergio My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South 
• McMillen, Sally, Motherhood in the old south: pregnancy, childbirth and infant rearing 
• Gaspar, David, & Hine, Darline (eds) More than chattel, black women and slavery in the Americas (articles by Steckel, Cody, Olwell, King & Stevenson)
• Fraser, Gertrude, African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race and Memory
• Johnston, James Hugo, Race relations in Virginia and miscegenation in the south
• Williamson, Joel, New People, miscegenation and mulattoes in the United States ch 1 & 2
• Jordan, Winthrop, White man's burden ch 4
• Hodes, Martha, White women, black men: illicit sex in the 19thC south
• Bynum, Victoria, Unruly Women
• Davis, Angela, Women race and class
• Fleischner, Jennifer, Mastering Slavery: Memory, family and identity in women's slave narratives 
• Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. 
• Sommerville, Diane Miller. Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South.
•  West, Emily, Chains of Love: Slave couples on antebellum South Carolina
• Morgan, Jennifer L, Laboring women : Reproduction & gender in New World Slavery
• Clinton, Catherine & Gillespie, Michele, (eds), The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South (articles by Wallenstein, Sommerville, Finkleman, Fischer, Hanger, Gould & Hall)
• Hawks, J.W. & Kemp, S. L, (eds) Sex, race and the role of women in the South
• Hooks, B, Arn't I a woman? Black women and feminism
• Lerner, Gerder, Black women in White America: A Documentary history
• Lowenberg, B & Bogin, R, (eds), Black women in 19thC American Life
• Garfield, Deborah, Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays
• Sterling, D., We are your sisters: black women in the 19thC