Camillia Cowling: 2 books
Conceiving Freedom
Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
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...
by Valéria Gomes Costa, Isabel Cristina Ferreira dos Reis, Flavia Fernandes de Souza
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Como foi a participação das mulheres cativas na sociedade escravista e nas primeiras décadas da pós-emancipação? Como protestaram mirando a escravidão e contrariando a ideia de que aceitaram com passividade a opressão imposta? Os ensaios desta coletânea, que abrange os séculos 18 a 20, constituem...