Conceiving Freedom (eBook)

Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

Camillia Cowling (Autor)

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2013
344 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1089-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful petitions for emancipation, often using free-womb laws that declared that the children of enslaved women were legally free. She reveals how enslaved womens struggles connected to abolitionist movements in each city and the broader Atlantic World, mobilizing new notions about enslaved and free womanhood. She shows how women conceived freedom and then taught the free-womb generation to understand and shape the meaning of that freedom. Even after emancipation, freed women would continue to use these claims-making tools as they struggled to establish new spaces for themselves and their families in post emancipation society.

Autor

Camillia Cowling is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.11.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: abolitionism in comparative perspective • abolitionism in comparative perspective / • abolitionism in Spain, Cuba, and Brazil • Abolitionist Confederation Rio de Janeiro • abolition of slavery in Brazil and Cuba • abolition of slavery in Latin America • African diaspora in Cuba and Brazil • African diaspora in the Americas • Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society • Camillia Cowling • comparative slavery in the Americas • "Conceiving Freedom" • Cuban patronato • free womb laws • Gender and slave emancipation in Brazil and Cuba • gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic World • gender and slave law in the Americas • gender and slavery • legal history of slave emancipation • Livro de Ouro fund • meanings of freedom • Moret Law • partus sequiter ventrem • post-emancipation societies of the Americas • Rio Branco Law • Saraiva-Cotegipe law • slave emancipation funds • slave women in Brazil and Cuba • Spanish Abolitionist Society • transition to free labor • urban history of Havana and Rio de Janeiro • urban slavery • women and manumission in the Americas
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-1089-2 / 1469610892
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1089-4 / 9781469610894