Conceiving Freedom : Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro /

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"In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cowling, Camillia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women slaves.
Race relations.
Antislavery movements.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes esclaves > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes esclaves > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Antislavery movements > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Cuba > Havana.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Havana (Cuba) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery
  • Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro
  • The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation
  • Part II. Seeking Freedom
  • As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making
  • Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World
  • I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom
  • Part III. Conceiving Freedom
  • Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom
  • She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom
  • My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship.

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