Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands

Zacek, Natalie

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“…8 Poorer and middling women, in particular, have been neglected in this scholarship. 9 Feminist scholars who work on the Anglo-Caribbean have focused on enslaved women, revealing how slavery and racism gendered and sexualised women of African descent in distinctive, profoundly exploitative ways. 10 Newer studies investigate the ambiguous positions held by free women of colour in societies increasingly characterised by racial caste systems.…”

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Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60

Walker¹

2015

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

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Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60

Walker¹

2015

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

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A Historical Social Network Analysis of John Pinney’s Nevis–Bristol Network: Change over Time, the “Network Memory,” and Reading Against the Grain of Historical Sources

Buckles¹

2022

Enterp. Soc.

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Social network analysis is an increasingly common tool for historians seeking to understand the interrelations between individuals. A significant concern, however, is how we might measure changes within networks over time and between periods. Historians have favored examining the network as it stands at particular points in time. However, this approach fails to capture the instability within networks and does not incorporate the perceptions of contemporaries. One solution is to integrate network data into a time series that is built around conceptualizations of the “network memory.” In a case study on John Pinney’s late eighteenth-century Nevis–Bristol network, I use a two-year moving total to model the lingering nature of ephemeral interactions on the memories of those involved in the plantation trade. Using this historical social network analysis as the basis for an iterative approach to the primary material, I explore what being a part of this network meant for the enslaved people on Pinney’s plantation and for the women in his family. This article demonstrates the value of the approach and highlights the ways in which historians can use it to contribute to the historiography of early modern business networks.

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Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica

Burnard¹,

Haggerty²

2023

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Recent work on white women in Jamaica has shown that they were active participants in Jamaica’s slave economy. This article adds to this recent literature through an innovative use of social network analysis (SNA) to examine the credit networks in which women operated in the thriving eighteenth-century British Atlantic town of Kingston, Jamaica. In particular, it uses closeness and centrality measures to quantify the distinctive role that white women had in local credit networks. These were different from those of men involved in transatlantic trade, but were vital in facilitating female access to credit enabling domestic retail trade. White female traders in particular facilitated female access to credit networks, acting as significant conduits of money and information in ways that were crucial to the local economy. Their connectedness within trade networks increased over time, despite their greater exposure than larger traders to economic shocks. We therefore demonstrate that white women were active protagonists in the developing economy of eighteenth-century Jamaica.

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Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands

Cited by 5 publications

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Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60

Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60

A Historical Social Network Analysis of John Pinney’s Nevis–Bristol Network: Change over Time, the “Network Memory,” and Reading Against the Grain of Historical Sources

Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica

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