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Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
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Edited by:
Pamela Scully
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With contributions by:
Sue Peabody
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English
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2005
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Pamela Scully has a joint appointment in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853.
Diana Paton is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870 and the editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, both also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
“This anthology links Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States in its analysis of the role of gender in creating new social orders after the end of slavery. Taken together, the essays are clear, compelling, complex, and ultimately unsettling in their evocation of a past filled with hope for great change and largely effective struggles for its containment.”—Eileen Findlay, author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
“This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men and women achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship in postemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well as differences in experiences, the contributing authors broaden our understanding of emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at the center of the analysis, moreover, many of these authors develop a new picture of the dynamics of emancipation.”—Rebecca Scott, author of Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
“[A] must-read for scholars of the Atlantic world, gender history, colonial studies, and comparative slavery and emancipation. The clearly written introduction and tightly edited chapters are suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, while the bibilographic essay is a good starting point to the historiography of some of the major debates.”
-- Kerry Ward International Journal of African Historical Studies
“[A] thought-provoking collection of essays . . . valuable for its discussions of divergent gender ideals among men and women slaves, elites and non-elites, planters, abolitionists, and missionaries. It is most important for its descriptions of the efforts of former slaves to contest and define what it meant to be free and male, versus free and female, in the aftermath of emancipation.”
-- Kathleen Higgins American Historical Review
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective
1 - Part I. Men, Women, Citizens
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Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844
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Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848
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Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica
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Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism
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A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople
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Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean
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Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa
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Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World
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Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico
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Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850
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Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888
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Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song (Southeastern Brazil, 1890–1920)
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The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas
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Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878
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Bibliographic Essay
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Contributors
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Index
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October 4, 2005
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