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008			130913s2013 ncu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781469611808
020			_z9781469610870 (cloth : alkaline paper)
020			_z9781469610887 (paperback : alkaline paper)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aHT1076 _b.C69 2013
082	0	0	_a306.3/62082 _223
100	1		_aCowling, Camillia.
245	1	0	_aConceiving freedom _h[electronic resource] : _bwomen of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro / _cCamillia Cowling.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bThe University of North Carolina Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery -- Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro -- The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation -- Part II. Seeking Freedom -- As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making -- Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World -- I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom -- Part III. Conceiving Freedom -- Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom -- She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom -- My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship.
520	2		_a"In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts. Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful petitions for emancipation, often using "free-womb" laws that declared that the children of enslaved women were legally free. She reveals how enslaved women's struggles connected to abolitionist movements in each city and the broader Atlantic World, mobilizing new notions about enslaved and free womanhood. She shows how women conceived freedom and then taught the "free-womb" generation to understand and shape the meaning of that freedom. Even after emancipation, freed women would continue to use these claims-making tools as they struggled to establish new spaces for themselves and their families in post emancipation society"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Latin America / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aAntislavery movements _zBrazil _zRio de Janeiro _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAntislavery movements _zCuba _zHavana _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zBrazil _zRio de Janeiro _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zCuba _zHavana _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zBrazil _zRio de Janeiro _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zCuba _zHavana _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aRio de Janeiro (Brazil) _xRace relations _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aHavana (Cuba) _xRace relations _xHistory _y19th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469611808/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33736 _d33736