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Gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. This title details and analyses the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Dominique (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848.

"Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse"--