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Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro / Camillia Cowling, ... |
| Publié : |
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina press
, cop. 2013 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XIII-326 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- 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