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Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
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Description for Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
Paperback. Deals with black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery. Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising ... Read more
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
The New Black Studies Series
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071942
SKU
V9780252071942
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About Gaspar
David Barry Gaspar is a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua. Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Emeritus Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern University. Her books include Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950. Together they have edited More Than Chattel: ... Read more
Reviews for Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
"This volume is a must-read for students of comparative New World slave systems. Although the primary focus of each essay is the quality of life experienced by women of color in a particular locale, each contributes to a broad picture of the interconnected web of racial identities, class systems, and sexual exploitation that characterized slave societies."
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