Paths to freedom : manumission in the Atlantic world /
The contributors investigate the cultural consequences of manumission as well as the changing economic conditions that limited the practice by the eighteenth century to understand better the social implications of this multifaceted aspect of the system of slavery.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Three notes of freedom: the nature of consequences of manumission / Orlando Patterson
- Manumission in metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / William D. Phillips Jr.
- The promise of freedom in late medieval Valencia / Debra G. Blumenthal
- Transformations in the manumission of slaves by Jews from east to west: pressures from the Atlantic slave trade / Jonathan Schorsch
- Manumission and the life cycle of a contained population: The VOC lodge slaves at the Cape of Good Hope, 1680-1730 / Mary Caroline Cravens
- Paths to freedom: imperial defense and manumission in Havana, 1762-1800 / Evelyn P. Jennings
- How free is free? the limits of manumission for enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century British West Indian sugar society / John F. Campbell
- Manumission in an entrepôt: the case of Curaçao / Willem Wubbo Klooster
- Sex and gender in Surinamese manumissions / Rosemary Brana-Shute
- Child abandonment and foster care in colonial Brazil: expostos and the free population of African descent in eighteenth-century Minas Gerais / Mariana L.R. Dantas
- Manumission, gender, and the law in nineteenth-century Brazil: liberata's legal suit for freedom / Keila Grinberg
- Conflicts over the meanings of freedom: the liberated Africans' struggle for final emancipation in Brazil, 1840s-1860s / Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian
- From "no country!" to "our country!" living out manumission and the boundaries of rights and citizenship, 1773-1855 / Scott Hancock
- "If the rest stay, I will stay; if they go, I will go": how slaves' familial bonds affected American colonization society manumissions / Eric Burin
- Manumission and the two-race system in early national Virginia / Eva Sheppard Wolf
- The slave owner's family and manumission in the post-revolutionary Chesapeake Tidewater: evidence from Anne Arundel county wills, 1790-1820 / Sean Condon
- Liberation in a rural context: the valley of Virginia, 1800-1860 / Ellen Eslinger.