As If She Were Free (eBook, PDF)

A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Redaktion: Ball, Erica L.; Snyder, Terri L.; Seijas, Tatiana

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Produktbeschreibung

As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108659499
• Artikelnr.: 70909717

Inhaltsangabe

Elizabeth Catlett and the form of emancipation Joyce Tsai; Introduction Erica L. Ball
Tatiana Seijas and Terri L. Snyder; Part I. Claiming Emancipation during the Rise of New World Slavery: 1. Margarita de Sossa
sixteenth-century Puebla de los Ángeles
New Spain (Mexico) Chloe L. Ireton; 2. Paula de Eguiluz
seventeenth-century Puerto Rico
Cuba
and New Granada (Colombia) Nicole von Germeten; 3. Reytory Angola
seventeenth-century Manhattan (US) Susanah Shaw Romney; 4. Elizabeth Key
seventeenth-century Virginia (US) Taunya Lovell Banks; 5. Hannah Manena McKenney
late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Bermuda and New Providence
Bahamas Heather Miyano Kopelson; 6. Juana de Godinez
seventeenth-century Lima
Peru Michelle A. McKinley; Part II. Experiencing Freedom during Slavery's Expansion: 7. Judith and Hannah: eighteenth-century Florida
South Carolina
and Virginia (US) Honor Sachs; 8. Sarah Chauqum
eighteenth-century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US) Margaret Ellen Newell; 9. Marion
eighteenth-century Natchitoches
Louisiana (US) Sophie White; 10. Anna Maria Lopes de Brito
eighteenth-century Minas Gerais
Brazil Mariana Dantas; 11. Juana Ramírez
eighteenth-century Oaxaca
New Spain (Mexico) Sabrina Smith; 12. Juana María Álvarez
eighteenth-century New Granada (Colombia) Ana María Díaz Burgos; 13. María Hipólita Lozano
eighteenth-century Lima
Peru Tamara J. Walker; Part III. Envisaging Emancipation during Second Slavery: 14. Bessy Chambers
nineteenth-century Jamaica Sasha Turner; 15. Minerva
nineteenth-century Texas and Louisiana
US and Mexico Alice L. Baumgartner; 16. Cécile Fatiman and Petra Calabarí
late-eighteenth-century Haiti and mid-nineteenth-century Cuba Aisha K. Finch; 17. Mary Ellen Pleasant
nineteenth-century Massachusetts and California
US Kellie Carter Jackson; 18. Gabriela
nineteenth-century Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil Mariana Dias Paes; 19. Maria Firmina dos Reis
nineteenth-century Maranhão
Brazil Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado; Part IV. Enacting Emancipation in the Aftermath of Slavery: 20. María Remedios del Valle
nineteenth-century Argentina Erika Edwards and Florencia Guzmán; 21. Lumina Sophie
nineteenth-century Martinique Jacqueline Couti; 22. Emma Lane Coger
nineteenth-century Illinois
Iowa
and Missouri (US) Sharon E. Wood; 23. Laura E. Davis Titus
nineteenth-century Norfolk
Virginia
US Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander; 24. Carrie Williams Clifford
nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Ohio
US Cathleen D. Cahill; Bibliography; Index.