Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas) Book

Here are the true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women--one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family--and how each in her own way sought to have her way: the slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Through these small histories Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male.Read More

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    These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male, through these compact histories.

  • 0521893534
  • 9780521893534
  • Sandra Lauderdale Graham
  • 5 September 2002
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
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