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UNINA9910973500103321 |
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Titolo |
Beyond bondage : free women of color in the Americas / / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-25112-4 |
9786613251121 |
0-252-09136-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GasparDavid Barry |
HineDarlene Clark |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women, Black - America - History |
Free Black people - America - History |
Slavery - America - History |
America Social conditions |
America Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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 |
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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"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts. |
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