Gender And Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World

by Scully, Pamela; Paton, Diana

• ISBN13: 9780822335818
• ISBN10: 0822335816
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men and women achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship in postemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well as differences in experiences, the contributing authors broaden our understanding of emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at the center of the analysis, moreover, many of these authors develop a new picture of the dynamics of emancipation."--Rebecca Scott, author of "Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Maps	viii
Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective	1	(34)
Diana Paton
Pamela Scully
PART I Men, Women, Citizens	35	(106)
Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834--1844	37	(19)
Pamela Scully
Negresse, Mulatresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650--1848	56	(23)
Sue Peabody
Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica	79	(20)
Mimi Sheller
Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism	99	(22)
Roger A. Kittleson
A Nation's Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople	121	(20)
Carol Faulkner
PART II Families, Land, and Labor	141	(82)
Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean	143	(19)
Bridget Brereton
Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa	162	(19)
Martin Klein
Richard Roberts
Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: a Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World	181	(18)
Michael Zeuske
Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico	199	(24)
Ileana Rodriguez-Silva
PART III The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation	223	(134)
Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790--ca. 1850	225	(22)
Melanie Newton
Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838--1888	247	(20)
Sheena Boa
Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890--1920	267	(22)
Martha Abreu
Amy Chazkel
Junia Claudia Zaidan
The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas	289	(21)
Hannah Rosen
Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865--1878	310	(18)
Marek Steedman
Bibliographic Essay	328	(29)
Diana Paton
Contributors	357	(4)
Index	361