ISBN:
9780511802973
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxii, 183 pages)
Series Statement:
New approaches to the Americas
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DDC:
305.48/9625
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Frau
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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Sklaverei
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Slavery / Social aspects / Brazil / Paraíba do Sul River Valley / History / 19th century
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Women / Brazil / Paraíba do Sul River Valley / Social conditions / 19th century
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Man-woman relationships / Brazil / Paraíba do Sul River Valley / History / 19th century
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Brasilien
Abstract:
This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assuming a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511802973
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511802973
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511802973
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