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Old Doll[edit]
Dolly "Old" Doll Newton was an "elite" enslaved woman on the Newton Plantation⠀ in Barbados. Doll was the matriarch of her family and achieved a high status among her fellow enslaved and petitioned many times for freedom as a result of her "elite" status. She was born into slavery during the mid- 18th century on the Newton Plantation.
Early Life[edit]
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Life on the Plantation:[edit]
Life on the Plantation was difficult and that is reflected in the Newton Slave burial ground in Barbados. The archeological evidence found in the burial ground shows “There was a gendering of health, wealth and energy on sugar plantations. The majority of field slaves were women and the majority of women worked in the field.”[1]
Dolly's life can be understood better by looking at the typical life of enslaved women on plantations in Barbados in the Caribbean. Slavery on Carribean plantations consisted of many different types of work with women in the fields and in the household. The amount of work and labor needed fa exceeded the white population in Barbados, and as a result, some enslaved people were able to advance their station within the community.[2] The demand for labor created a unique situation in the Caribbean where, "a number of enterprising women of color actively used their connections with white men and women to their advantage—in effect negotiating their circumstances in order to achieve some semblance of freedom"[2]
Family Dynamics/Relationships[edit]
She was the daughter of Mary Hylas , and she and her sister, Mary Ann, functioned as the head of the family after their mother's death.[3] Her mother, Mary Hylas, was a figure in the case of abolition and marriage when her husband, John Hylas, tried to sue to get her back, and the judge decided Mary belonged to her owner and was forced to go back to Barbados, where she gave birth to Doll and her sister.[4]
Daughter: Elizabeth and Freedom[edit]
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Late Life and Death[edit]
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Sources[edit]
Watson, Karl “A kind of right to be idle: Old Doll, matriarch of the Newton Plantation. ”Department of History, UWI / Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados 2000.
Turner, Sasha. "Contested Bodies : Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Roberts, Justin. “The ‘Better Sort’ and the ‘Poorer Sort’: Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1800.” Slavery & abolition 35, no. 3 (2014): 458–473.
Paton, Diana. “The Driveress and the Nurse: Childcare, Working Children and Other Work Under Caribbean Slavery.” Past & present 246, no. Supplement_15 (2020): 27–53.
Paugh, K. (2014). "The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves and the Limits of British Abolitionism. Slavery & Abolition," 35(4), 629–651. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2014.929814
- ^ Roberts, Justin (2014-07-03). "The 'Better Sort' and the 'Poorer Sort': Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750–1800". Slavery & Abolition. 35 (3): 458–473. doi:10.1080/0144039x.2014.944032. ISSN 0144-039X.
- ^ a b "Fighting Against Violence Towards Black Women". 2024. doi:10.4135/9781529688016.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "5. NEWTON PLANTATION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS", Plantation Slavery in Barbados, Harvard University Press, pp. 103–170, 1978-12-31, retrieved 2024-04-25
- ^ Paugh, Katherine (2014-10-02). "The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves and the Limits of British Abolitionism". Slavery & Abolition. 35 (4): 629–651. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2014.929814. ISSN 0144-039X.