As if she were free : a collective biography of women and emancipation in the Americas / edited by Erica L. Ball, Occidental College, Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University, Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-484) and index.
Contents:
Elizabeth Catlett and the form of emancipation / Joyce Tsai -- Margarita de Sossa: sixteenth century, Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico) / Chloe L. Ireton -- Paula de Eguiluz: seventeenth century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia) / Nicole von Germeten -- Reytory Angola: seventeenth century Manhattan (US) / Susanah Shaw Romney -- Elizabeth Key: seventeenth century Virginia (US) / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Hannah Manena McKenney: late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas) / Heather Miryano Kopelson -- Juana de Godinez: seventeenth century Lima (Peru) / Michelle A. McKinley -- Judith and Hannah: eighteenth century Florida, South Carolina, and Virginia (US) / Honor Sachs -- Sarah Chauqum: eighteenth century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US) / Margaret Ellen Newell -- Marion: eighteenth century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US) / Sophie White -- Ana Maria Lopes de Brito: eighteenth century Minas Geraís (Brazil) / Mariana L. R. Dantas -- Juana Ramírez: eighteenth century Oaxaca New Spain (Mexico) / Sabrina Smith -- Juana María Álvarez: eighteenth century New Granada (Colombia) / Ana María Díaz Burgos -- María Hipólita Lozano: eighteenth century Lima (Peru) / Tamara J. Walker -- Bessy Chambers: nineteenth century Jamaica / Sasha Turner -- Minerva: nineteenth century Téjas and Louisiana (US) and Mexico / Alice L. Baumgartner -- Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí: late eighteenth century Haiti and mid nineteenth century Cuba / Aisha K. Finch -- Mary Ellen Pleasant: nineteenth century Massachusetts and California (US) / Kellie Carter Jackson -- Gabriela: nineteenth century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) / Mariana Dias Paes -- Maria Firmina dos Reis: nineteenth century Maranhão (Brazil) / Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado -- María Remedios del Valle: nineteenth century Argentina / Florencia Guzmán and Erika Denise Edwards -- Lumina Sophie: nineteenth century Martinique / Jacqueline Couti -- Emma Lane Coger: nineteenth century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US) / Sharon E. Wood -- Laura E. Davis Titus: nineteenth century Norfolk Virginia (US) / Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander -- Carrie Williams Clifford: nineteenth and early twentieth century Ohio (US) / Cathleen D. Cahill.
Summary:
"The twenty-four women discussed in these chapters constitute a collective biography that narrates the history of emancipation as experienced by women of African descent in the western hemisphere. As If She Were Free articulates this individual and collective struggle - in which African descended women spoke and acted in ways that declared that they had a right to determine the course of their lives. African descended women sought out freedom from the moment they arrived on the shores of the Americas in the sixteenth century. For the next four centuries, enslaved women measured freedom in degrees, claimed it in stages, and experienced it multidimensional ways. For some women, freedom meant legal protection from slavery, while, for others, something akin to freedom was experienced in the context of a family, a community, or a political association. More than simply deliverance from slavery; emancipation was liberation from civil or other restraints; and it included efforts to gain economic, personal, political, and social rights. On all of these fronts, women emancipated themselves. In telling their stories, As If She Were Free articulates a new feminist history of freedom"-- Provided by publisher.
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