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04770aam a2200589 i 4500 001 B32CCB086BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 130913t20132013ncuab b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013025582 020 $a 1469610892 020 $a 9781469610894 020 $a 1469610884 (paperback : alkaline paper) 020 $a 9781469610887 (paperback : alkaline paper) 020 $a 1469610876 (cloth : alkaline paper) 020 $a 9781469610870 (cloth : alkaline paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)858914311 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d IAD $d CDX $d DEBBG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-bl--- $a s-bl--- 050 00 $a HT1076 $b .C69 2013 082 00 $a 306.3/62082 $2 23 084 $a SOC054000 $a SOC028000 $a SOC054000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Cowling, Camillia. 245 10 $a Conceiving freedom : $b women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro / $c Camillia Cowling, The University of North CarolinaPress Chapel Hill. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2013] 300 $a xiii, 326 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery -- Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro -- The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation -- Part II. Seeking Freedom -- As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making -- Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World -- I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom -- Part III. Conceiving Freedom -- Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom -- She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom -- My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship. 520 2 $a "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 late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts. Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful petitions for emancipation, often using "free-womb" laws that declared that the children of enslaved women were legally free. She reveals how enslaved women's struggles connected to abolitionist movements in each city and the broader Atlantic World, mobilizing new notions about enslaved and free womanhood. She shows how women conceived freedom and then taught the "free-womb" generation to understand and shape the meaning of that freedom. Even after emancipation, freed women would continue to use these claims-making tools as they struggled to establish new spaces for themselves and their families in post emancipation society"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women slaves $z Havana $z Havana $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women slaves $z Rio de Janeiro $z Rio de Janeiro $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women slaves $x History $z Havana $z Havana $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women slaves $x History $z Rio de Janeiro $z Rio de Janeiro $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z Havana $z Havana $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z Rio de Janeiro $z Rio de Janeiro $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Havana (Cuba) $x History $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Latin America / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. $2 bisacsh 650 4 $a HISTORY / Latin America / General / bisacsh. 650 4 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery / bisacsh. 650 4 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies / bisacsh. 650 07 $a Abschaffung. $0 (DE-588)4200586-3 $2 gnd 650 07 $a Sklaverei. $0 (DE-588)4055260-3 $2 gnd 650 07 $a Weibliche Schwarze. $0 (DE-588)4286929-8 $2 gnd 651 7 $a Havanna. $0 (DE-588)4023865-9 $2 gnd 651 7 $a Rio de Janeiro. $0 (DE-588)4076741-3 $2 gnd 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021022726.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B32CCB086BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search