UID:
almafu_9960117229702883
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 183 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-34103-8
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0-511-80297-8
Series Statement:
New approaches to the Americas
Content:
This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assuming a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The First Story --
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Caetana Says No: Patriarchy Confounded
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Settings
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Workers
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Family
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Godparents
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Captain Tolosa
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Caetana
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Annulment Denied
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Luis Mariano de Tolosa's Household, 1830
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Manuel da Cunha de Azeredo Coutinho Souza Chichorro's Household, 1835
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The Second Story --
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Inacia Wills Her Way: Patriarchy Confirmed
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The Making of the Will
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Choosing Heirs
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The Will Revealed
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The Contract
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Werneck's Sense of Order
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Inacia's Will, 1857
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Francisca's Will, 1849
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-89353-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-81532-0
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511802973
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