Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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The work Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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"--
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- NjRocCCS
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- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT1076
- LC item number
- .C69 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
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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
- HeinOnline women and the law
- HeinOnline civil rights and social justice
- Target audience
- specialized
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