David Barry Gaspar & Darlene Clark Hine 
Beyond Bondage [EPUB ebook] 
Free Women of Color in the Americas

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Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom–represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property–always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780252091360 ● Editor David Barry Gaspar & Darlene Clark Hine ● Publisher University of Illinois Press ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5816642 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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