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Caetana says no : women's stories from a Brazilian slave society / Sandra Lauderdale Graham.
Author
Lauderdale Graham, Sandra, 1943-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
xxii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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HT1129.P36 L38 2002
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Subject(s)
Slavery
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Social aspects
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Brazil
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Paraíba do Sul River Valley
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History
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19th century
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Women
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Brazil
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Paraíba do Sul River Valley
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Social conditions
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19th century
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Man-woman relationships
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Brazil
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Paraíba do Sul River Valley
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History
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19th century
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Series
New approaches to the Americas
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Summary note
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Counter Here are the true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each in her own way sought to have her way: the slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-177) and index.
Contents
The First Story
Caetana Says No: Patriarchy Confounded 1
Settings 4
Workers 17
Family 26
Godparents 44
Captain Tolosa 49
Caetana 56
Annulment Denied 62
Luis Mariano de Tolosa's Household, 1830 75
Manuel da Cunha de Azeredo Coutinho Souza Chichorro's Household, 1835 80
The Second Story
Inacia Wills Her Way: Patriarchy Confirmed 83
The Making of the Will 85
Choosing Heirs 111
The Will Revealed 122
The Contract 134
Werneck's Sense of Order 142
Inacia's Will, 1857 159
Francisca's Will, 1849 165.
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ISBN
0521815320 ((hardback))
9780521815321 ((hardback))
0521454867
9780521454865
0521455731 ((pbk.))
9780521455732 ((pbk.))
0521893534 ((pbk.))
9780521893534 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2002067666
OCLC
49775401
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