| Description |
vi, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Gender and slave emancipation in comparative perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully -- Masculinity, citizenship, and the production of knowledge in the postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844 / Pamela Scully -- Négresse, mulâtresse, citoyenne : gender and emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848 / Sue Peabody -- Acting as free men : subaltern masculinities and citizenship in postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller -- Women and notions of womanhood in Brazilian abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson -- A nation's sin : white women and U.S. policy toward freedpeople / Carol Faulkner -- Family strategies, gender, and the shift to wage labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Gender and emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts -- Two stories of gender and slave emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, central Cuba : a microhistorical approach to the Atlantic world / Michael Zeuske -- Libertos and libertas in the construction of the free worker in postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodríguez-Silva -- Philanthropy, gender, and the production of public life in Barbados, ca. 1790-ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton -- Young ladies and dissolute women : conflicting views of culture and gender in public entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838-1888 / Sheena Boa -- Mulatas, crioulos, and morenas : racial hierarchy, gender relations, and national identity in postabolition popular song : southeastern Brazil, 1890-1920 / Martha Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan -- The rhetoric of miscegenation and the reconstruction of race : debating marriage, sex, and citizenship in postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen -- Gender and the politics of the household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1878 / Marek Steedman -- Bibliographic essay / Diana Paton. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- America.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. |
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America. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area.
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Caribbean Area. |
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Sex role -- America -- History.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
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Sex role -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Scully, Pamela.
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Paton, Diana, 1969-
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| ISBN |
0822335948 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822335816 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780822335818 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780822335948 paperback alkaline paper |
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