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Author Cowling, Camillia, author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "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 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. Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful petitions for emancipation, often using "free-womb" laws that declared that the children of enslaved women were legally free. She reveals how enslaved women's struggles connected to abolitionist movements in each city and the broader Atlantic World, mobilizing new notions about enslaved and free womanhood. She shows how women conceived freedom and then taught the "free-womb" generation to understand and shape the meaning of that freedom. Even after emancipation, freed women would continue to use these claims-making tools as they struggled to establish new spaces for themselves and their families in post emancipation society"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery -- Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro -- The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation -- Part II. Seeking Freedom -- As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making -- Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World -- I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom -- Part III. Conceiving Freedom -- Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom -- She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom -- My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship.
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Subject Enslaved women -- Cuba -- Havana -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved women.
Cuba -- Havana.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Enslaved women -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century.
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Enslaved women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba -- Havana -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- Cuba -- Havana -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cowling, Camillia. Conceiving freedom 9781469610870 (DLC) 2013025582 (OCoLC)858914311
ISBN 9781469611808 (electronic book)
1469611805 (electronic book)
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9781469610887
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