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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815758503321

Titolo

Beyond bondage : free women of color in the Americas / / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-25112-4

9786613251121

0-252-09136-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

The new Black studies

Altri autori (Persone)

GasparDavid Barry

HineDarlene Clark

Disciplina

305.488

Soggetti

Women, Black - America - History

Free blacks - America - History

Slavery - America - History

America Social conditions

America Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART 1. ACHIEVING AND PRESERVING FREEDOM""; ""1. Maroon Women in Colonial Spanish America: Case Studies in the Circum-Caribbean from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries""; ""2. Of Life and Freedom at the (Tropical) Hearth: El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73""; ""3. In the Shadow of the Plantation: Women of Color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe,  1685-1848""; ""4. ""To Be Free Is Very Sweet"": The Manumission of Female Slaves in Antigua, 1817-26""

""5. ""Do Thou in Gentle Phibia Smile"": Scenes from an Interracial Marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86""""6. The Fragile Nature of Freedom: Free Women of Color in the U.S. South""; ""PART 2. MAKING A LIFE IN FREEDOM""; ""7. Out of Bounds: Emancipated and Enslaved Women in Antebellum America""; ""8. Free Black and Colored Women in Early-Nineteenth-Century Paramaribo, Suriname""; ""9. Ana Paulinha de Queiros, Joaquina da Costa, and Their Neighbors: Free Women of Color as Household Heads in Rural Bahia (Brazil), 1835""; ""10. Libertas



Citadinas: Free Women of Color in San Juan, Puerto Rico""

""11. Landlords, Shopkeepers, Farmers, and Slave-Owners: Free Black Female Property-Holders in Colonial New Orleans""""13. Henriette Delille, Free Women of Color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852""; ""12. Free Women of Color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832""; ""14. Religious Women of Color in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""