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Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro / Camillia Cowling.

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"In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on l...

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Main Author: Cowling, Camillia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Enslaved women > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Cuba > Havana > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History > 19th century.
Havana (Cuba) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Race relations > History > 19th century.

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