| Description |
xi, 329 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
The new Black studies
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New Black studies series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Maroon women in colonial Spanish America : case studies in the Circum-Caribbean from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries / Jane Landers -- Of life and freedom at the (tropical) hearth : El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73 / María Elena Díaz -- In the shadow of the plantation : women of color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1685-1848 / Bernard Moitt -- "To be free is very sweet" : the manumission of female slaves in Antigua, 1817-26 / David Barry Gaspar -- "Do thou in gentle Phibia smile" : scenes from an interracial marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86 / Trevor Burnard -- Fragile nature of freedom : free women of color in the U.S. South / Loren Schweninger -- Out of bounds : emancipated and enslaved women in Antebellum America / Wilma King -- Free Black and Colored women in early-nineteenth-century Paramaribo, Suriname / Rosemarijn Hoefte, Jean Jacques Vrij -- Ana Paulinha de Queirós, Joaquina da Costa, and their neighbors : free women of color as household heads in rural Bahia (Brazil), 1835 / B.J. Barickman, Martha Few -- Libertas citadinas : free women of color in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- Landlords, shopkeepers, farmers, and slave-owners : free Black female property-holders in colonial New Orleans / Kimberly S. Hanger -- Free women of color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832 / Mary C. Karasch -- Henriette Delille, free women of color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852 / Virginia Meacham Gould -- Religious women of color in seventeenth-century Lima : Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo / Alice L. Wood. |
| Subject |
Women, Black -- America -- History.
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Women, Black. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Free Black people -- America -- History.
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Free Black people. |
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America -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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America -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Slavery -- America -- History.
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Slavery. |
| Added Author |
Gaspar, David Barry.
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Hine, Darlene Clark.
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| ISBN |
0252071948 paperback alkaline paper |
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0252029399 cloth alkaline paper |
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