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THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN WESTAFRICA AND THE SLAVE TRADE

OTHER REFERENCES

Beck, Evelyn, Bibliography: Gender and theTrans-Atlantic Slave Trade

http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~roots/site/gender/beck.html

Bush, Barbara, Slave Women in CarribeanSociety

Robertson, Claire and Klein, Martin (eds.), Womenand Slavery in Africa, U of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Small, Stephen, RacistIdeologies in Tibbles, Anthony (ed.), Transatlantic Slavery: Against HumanDignity, HMSO, 1994

112    (quoting Angela Davis, Women Race and Class, The Women's Press, 1981)  . . . 'rape was a weapon of domination, a weapon of repression, whose covert goal was to extinguish slave women's will to resist, and  in the process, to demoralize their men.'