Jenny Sharpe. shades of Slavery: A...

Jenny Sharpe. shades of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P 2003 xxvi + 187 pp ISBN 0-8166-3722-9 $4995 cloth; ISBN 0-8166-3723-7 $1795 paper.

In spirits of Slavery, Jenny Sharpe examines, through the whole extent of four chapters, the lives of three women--the Maroon leader, Nanny; the enslaved Mulatto, Joanna; and Mary Prince, the narrator of the single English female "slave narrative"--who experienced slavery in different geographical connections in the Caribbean. We think we know these women because they are not as invisible as other