Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
326 p., 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.
Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Hine,Darlene Clark (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
341 p, Includes Mary Karasch's "Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century," Hilary Beckles' "Black female slaves and white households in Barbados," Robert W. Slenes' "Black homes, white homilies: perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil," Barbara Bush's "Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies," David Barry Gaspar's "From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763," Bernard Moitt's "Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean,"David P. Geggus' "Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue," and Susan M. Socolow's "Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Francais."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
42 (1): 131-153
Notes:
The passing of the British Abolition Act in 1807 owed much to the activism of women, enslaved and free, who employed diverse strategies to agitate for the ending of what was arguably the greatest crime against humanity. Reflects on women's role in Caribbean development and the struggles they faced in the process.