Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation (eBook)

Contents

Introduction

1. Women of Diverse “Types” and their Last Wills and Testaments in the Colonial, Slave, and Mestizo Captaincy of Minas Gerais | Eduardo França Paiva

2. Women of African Descent in Bahia: Gender, Color and Social Mobility, 1780-1830 | Adriana Dantas Reis

3. Three Black Women Who Changed the Game in 18th Century Minas Gerais | Luciano Figueiredo

4. Queens and Judges: Black Women in the Black Sisterhoods of Central Brazil, 1722-1860 | Mary Karasch

5. Among Characters, Typologies, and Labels of “Difference”: The Slave Woman in the 19th Century Fiction of Rio de Janeiro | Giovana Xavier

6. Enslaved Women in 19th Century Paraíba: Work, Contradictions, and Fights for Freedom | Solange P. Rocha

7. Mônica da Costa and Teresa de Jesus: Free African Women, Status, and Social Networks in 19th Century Recife | Valéria Gomes Costa

8. Under the Rule of Women: Marriage and Divorce among the “Minas” African Ethnic Group in 19th Century Rio de Janeiro | Juliana Barreto Farias

9. A Certain Freedom | Sandra Lauderdale Graham

10. “With Her, He Lived Like a Dog Lives with a Cat”: Emancipation, Maternity, and Gender on the Southern Border | Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira

11. Gender Relations in the Daily Life of Black Women in 19th Century Bahia | Isabel Cristina Ferreira dos Reis

12. To Grandma Vitorina, With Love. Rio De Janeiro, Around 1870 | Sandra Sofia Machado Koutsoukos

13. Between Two Benedicts: Stories of Wet Nurses in the Decline of Slavery | Maria Helena P. T. Machado

14. The “Livro de Ouro” (Golden Book), Emancipation Fund and Enslaved Women: Gender, Abolition, and the Meanings of Freedom in the Court, 1880s | Camillia Cowling

15. Teodora Dias da Cunha: Constructing a Place for Herself in the World of Writing and Slavery | Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach

16. Women of the House: Black Women and Domestic Work in the Imperial Court | Flavia Fernandes de Souza

17. Zizinha Guimarães: Between History and Memory | Petrônio Domingues

18. “Around the World” with Women of Capoeira: Gender and Black Culture in Brazil, 1850-1920 | Antônio Liberac Cardoso Simões Pires

19. Histories of Differences and Inequalities Revisited: Notes on Gender, Slavery, Race, and Post-Emancipation | Marcelo Paixão and Flavio Gomes