As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas - Tapa blanda

 
9781108737036: As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
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ISBN 10: 110873703X ISBN 13: 9781108737036
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Sinopsis

As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.

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Erica L. Ball is Professor in the Department of History and the Black Studies Program at Occidental College, Los Angeles. She is co-editor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory (2017) and author of To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class (2012).

Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the co-author of Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics (2017) and author of Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians (2014), which won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Book Prize.

Terri L. Snyder is Professor in the Department of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (2015).

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
110873703X
ISBN 13 
9781108737036
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
528
Editor
Ball Erica L
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
Avery
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