Beyond Bondage

by Gaspar, David Barry

• ISBN13: 9780252029394
• ISBN10: 0252029399
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-22
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART 1: ACHIEVING AND PRESERVING FREEDOM
1. Maroon Women in Colonial Spanish America: Case Studies in the Circum-Caribbean from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries
JANE LANDERS	3	(16)
2. Of Life and Freedom at the (Tropical) Hearth: El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73
MARIA ELENA DIAZ	19	(18)
3. In the Shadow of the Plantation: Women of Color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1685-1848
BERNARD MOITT	37	(23)
4. "To Be Free Is Very Sweet": The Manumission of Female Slaves in Antigua, 1817-26
DAVID BARRY GASPAR	60	(22)
5. "Do Thou in Gentle Phibia Smile": Scenes from an Interracial Marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86
TREVOR BURNARD	82	(24)
6. The Fragile Nature of Freedom: Free Women of Color in the U.S. South
LOREN SCHWENINGER	106	(21)
PART 2: MAKING A LIFE IN FREEDOM
7. Out of Bounds: Emancipated and Enslaved Women in Antebellum America
WILMA KING	127	(18)
8. Free Black and Colored Women in Early-Nineteenth-Century Paramaribo, Suriname
ROSEMARIJN HOEFTE AND JEAN JACQUES VRIJ	145	(24)
9. 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	169	(33)
10. Libertas Citadinas: Free Women of Color in San Juan, Puerto Rico
FÉLIX V. MATOS RODRIGUEZ	202	(17)
11. Landlords, Shopkeepers, Farmers, and Slave-Owners: Free Black Female Property-Holders in Colonial New Orleans
KIMBERLY S. HANGER	219	(18)
12. Free Women of Color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832
MARY C. KARASCH	237	(34)
13. Henriette Delille, Free Women of Color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852
VIRGINIA MEACHAM GOULD	271	(15)
14. Religious Women of Color in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo
ALICE L. WOOD	286	(31)
Contributors	317	(4)
Index	321