The Resource Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Camillia Cowling
Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Camillia Cowling
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The item Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Camillia Cowling represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library.
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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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages)
- Note
- ©2016 Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc
- Label
- Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
- Title
- Conceiving freedom
- Title remainder
- women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
- Statement of responsibility
- Camillia Cowling
- Subject
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- Antislavery movements -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Antislavery movements -- Cuba | Havana -- History -- 19th century
- Havana (Cuba) -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Electronic books
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba | Havana -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Cuba | Havana -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NjRocCCS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cowling, Camillia
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT1076
- LC item number
- .C69 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
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- HeinOnline UNC Press law publications
- HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women slaves
- Women slaves
- Women slaves
- Women slaves
- Antislavery movements
- Antislavery movements
- Havana (Cuba)
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Target audience
- specialized
- Label
- Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Camillia Cowling
- Note
- ©2016 Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps.
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Camillia Cowling
- Note
- ©2016 Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps.
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Antislavery movements -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Antislavery movements -- Cuba | Havana -- History -- 19th century
- Electronic books
- Havana (Cuba) -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Cuba | Havana -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba | Havana -- History -- 19th century
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