Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro /

Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro /

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"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 l...

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Main Author: Cowling, Camillia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Women and the law.
Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:
Women slaves > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Women slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Havana (Cuba) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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