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Title Gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic world / edited by Pamela Scully and Diana Paton
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 376 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: Gender and slave emancipation in comparative perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully -- Masculinity, citizenship, and the production of knowledge in the postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844 / Pamela Scully -- Négresse, mulâtresse, citoyenne : gender and emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848 / Sue Peabody -- Acting as free men : subaltern masculinities and citizenship in postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller -- Women and notions of womanhood in Brazilian abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson -- A nation's sin : white women and U.S. policy toward freedpeople / Carol Faulkner -- Family strategies, gender, and the shift to wage labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Gender and emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts -- Two stories of gender and slave emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, central Cuba : a microhistorical approach to the Atlantic world / Michael Zeuske -- Libertos and libertas in the construction of the free worker in postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodríguez-Silva -- Philanthropy, gender, and the production of public life in Barbados, ca. 1790-ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton -- Young ladies and dissolute women : conflicting views of culture and gender in public entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838-1888 / Sheena Boa -- Mulatas, crioulos, and morenas : racial hierarchy, gender relations, and national identity in postabolition popular song : southeastern Brazil, 1890-1920 / Martha Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan -- The rhetoric of miscegenation and the reconstruction of race : debating marriage, sex, and citizenship in postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen -- Gender and the politics of the household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1878 / Marek Steedman -- Bibliographic essay / Diana Paton
Summary The contributors to this text present a comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- America
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area
Sex role -- America -- History
Sex role -- Caribbean Area -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Sex role
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Sklaverei
Abschaffung
Geschlechterrolle
Slaveri -- genusaspekter -- Västindien.
Slaveri -- genusaspekter -- Förenta staterna.
Slaveri -- genusaspekter -- Brasilien.
America
Caribbean Area
Genre/Form History
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Scully, Pamela, editor
Paton, Diana, 1969- editor.
ISBN 9780822387466
0822387468
0822335816
9780822335818