HUMAN 1C Chapter Notes - Chapter Hawkins and Harrington: Monogamy, Plantation Records, Royal African Company
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The women appear among the africans to be endowed with the. Father geronimo boscana describes ac gchemem women"s marriage and. Man brought things to the home, woman took care of the home. This was to test the woman"s skills. Author discredits validity of marriage between natives. Parents told daughter not to disgrace them and that she can always return home. We know enslaved work for women was terrible bc it was unending. Children were presumed to also go into slavery. Reproductive future tied to status as slave. Women"s reproductive potential made racial slavery make sense. It was a status/condition that was never ending and inherited. They describe women and created symbolic boundaries that created differences between. Looked at plantation records from south carolina to work back to barbados. Start with published sources from england arguing about state of currency. How does the black atlantic come into being. When there"s no first sources, look at probate records like wills.