Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 - Paperbackby Bernard Moitt (Author) Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635 1848 Bernard Moitt Examines the reaction of black women to slavery. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635 1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Domingue (now