Beyond bondage : free women of color in the Americas / edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaspar, David Barry.

Hine, Darlene Clark.

Series:

New Black studies series

The new Black studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--America--History.

Women, Black.

Free Black people--America--History.

Free Black people.

History.

America--Social conditions.

America.

Social conditions.

America--Race relations.

Race relations.

Slavery--America--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

xi, 329 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

Summary:

David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine's Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, were forced to carve out their existences. Although their freedom, represented by the acquisition of property, respectability, and opportunity, always remained precarious, the collection supports the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.

Contents:

Maroon women in colonial Spanish America : case studies in the Circum-Caribbean from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries / Jane Landers

Of life and freedom at the (tropical) hearth : El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73 / María Elena Díaz

In the shadow of the plantation : women of color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1685-1848 / Bernard Moitt

"To be free is very sweet" : the manumission of female slaves in Antigua, 1817-26 / David Barry Gaspar

"Do thou in gentle Phibia smile" : scenes from an interracial marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86 / Trevor Burnard

The fragile nature of freedom : free women of color in the U.S. South / Loren Schweninger

Out of bounds : emancipated and enslaved women in Antebellum America / Wilma King

Free Black and Colored women in early-nineteenth-century Paramaribo, Suriname / Rosemarijn Hoefte and Jean Jacques Vrij

Ana Paulinha de Queirós, Joaquina da Costa, and their neighbors : free women of color as household heads in rural Bahia (Brazil), 1835 / B.J. Barickman and Martha Few

Libertas citadinas : free women of color in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

Landlords, shopkeepers, farmers, and slave-owners : free Black female property-holders in colonial New Orleans / Kimberly S. Hanger

Free women of color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832 / Mary C. Karasch

Henriette Delille, free women of color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852 / Virginia Meacham Gould

Religious women of color in seventeenth-century Lima : Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo / Alice L. Wood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252029399

0252071948

OCLC:

54455259