‘unrelenting toil’: Expanding archaeological interpretations of the female slave experience

Slavery and Abolition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-232

  Jordan, Elizabeth Grzymala ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

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EID: 34848816976     PISSN: 0144039X     EISSN: 17439523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01440390500176350     Document Type: Article

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