ISBN:
9780252029394
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (343 p)
Series Statement:
New Black Studies
Series Statement:
New Black Studies Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond Bondage : Free Women of Color in the Americas
DDC:
305.488
Keywords:
Free blacks - America - History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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