The Power of Their Will : Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba /

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"In the early nineteenth century, while abolitionism was rising and the slave trade was declining in the Atlantic world, Spain used this opportunity to massively expand plantation slavery in Cuba. Between 1501 and 1866, more than 778,000 Africans were torn from their homelands and brought to wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Prados-Torreira, Teresa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Social conditions.
Women plantation owners.
Slavery.
Slaveholders.
Women > Cuba > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women plantation owners > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Cuba.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Female slaveholders in Havana, Santiago, and other towns
  • Visiting the sugar mill
  • Coffee plantation mistresses
  • "I bequeath": slaveholding women's wills
  • Amas and the Ten Years' War.

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