ISBN:
9780511803376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxv, 322 pages)
Series Statement:
New approaches to the Americas
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DDC:
306.3/62092
Keywords:
Silva, Chica da / -1796
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Geschichte 1700-1800
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Geschichte
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Sklaverei
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Slaves / Brazil / Biography
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Slavery / Brazil / History / 18th century
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Brasilien
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Brazil / Social conditions / 18th century
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Biografie
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Biografie
Abstract:
Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But her story is not merely the personal history of a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created around her in subsequent centuries, as Chica de Silva came to symbolize both an example of racial democracy and the stereotype of licentiousness and sensuality always attributed to the black or mulatta female in the Brazilian popular imagination
Description / Table of Contents:
Land of stars -- Chica da Silva -- The diamond contractors -- Black diamond -- The lady of Tejuco -- Life in the village -- Mines of splendor -- Separation -- Disputes -- Destinies -- Chica-que-manda
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511803376
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