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9780822387466

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This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered process, produced through connections between race, gender, sexuality, and class. Contributors from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Brazil explore how the processes of emancipation involved the re-creation of gender identities-the production of freedmen and freedwomen with different rights, responsibilities, and access to citizenship.Offering detailed analyses of slave emancipation in specific societies, the contributors discuss all of the diverse actors in emancipation: slaves, abolitionists, free people of color, state officials, and slave owners. Whether considering the construction of a postslavery masculine subjectivity in Jamaica, the work of two white U.S. abolitionist women with the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, freedwomen's negotiations of labor rights in Puerto Rico, slave women's contributions to the slow unraveling of slavery in French West Africa, or the ways that Brazilian abolitionists deployed representations of femininity as virtuous and moral, these essays demonstrate the gains that a gendered approach offers to understanding the complex processes of emancipation. Some chapters also explore theories and methodologies that enable a gendered reading of postslavery archives. The editors' substantial introduction traces the reasons for and patterns of women's and men's different experiences of emancipation throughout the Atlantic world.Contributors. Martha Abreu, Sheena Boa, Bridget Brereton, Carol Faulkner, Roger Kittleson, Martin Klein, Melanie Newton, Diana Paton, Sue Peabody, Richard Roberts, Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva, Hannah Rosen, Pamela Scully, Mimi Sheller, Marek Steedman, Michael Zeuske

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

04 octobre 2005

EAN13

9780822387466

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Gender and Slave

Emancipation in the Atlantic World

Gender and Slave

Emancipation in the Atlantic World

edited bypamela scullyanddiana paton

Duke University Press

2005

Durham and London

∫2005 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of

America on acid-free paper$

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by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-

Publication Data appear on the

last printed page of this book.

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Maps viii

diana paton and pamela scullyIntroduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective 1

part iMen, Women, Citizens 35

pamela scullyMasculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 37

sue peabodyNégresse,Mulâtresse,Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 56

mimi shellerActing as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica 79

roger a. kittlesonWomen and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism 99

carol faulknerA Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople 121

part iiFamilies, Land, and Labor 141

bridget breretonFamily Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean 143

martin klein and richard roberts tion in French West Africa 162

Gender and Emancipa-

michael zeuskeTwo Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World 181

ileana rodríguez-silvaLibertosandLibertasin the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico 199

part iii

The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223

melanie newtonPhilanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 225

sheena boaYoung Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conﬂicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 247

martha abreu(translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan)Mulatas,Crioulos, andMorenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890–1920 267

hannah rosenThe Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas 289

marek steedmanGender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 310

diana paton

Bibliographic Essay 328

Contributors 357

Index 361

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Acknowledgments

This book originated in e-mail conversations between Pamela and Diana in 1998. Since then, many individuals and institutions have provided support. Most important, we would like to thank the contributors for their hard work, their timeliness in submitting and revising chapters, and their patience with the production process. Several of them also read and provided important comments on the introduction and bibliographic essay. Versions of the introduction were given as papers at Warwick Univer-sity, Newcastle University, the Women’s History Seminar at the Institute for Historical Research, and the University of London. We would like to thank the audiences at those occasions, as well as the audience and participants at our round table at the Berkshire Women’s History Conference in 2002, ‘‘Gendering the History of Slave Emancipation,’’ for their encouraging and helpful feedback. Denison University, Queens’ College, Oxford, and New-castle University provided research support. Pamela completed this project at Emory University and would like to thank her colleagues for welcoming her so warmly to Atlanta. We extend our thanks to Frederick Cooper, Laura Edwards, Gad Heuman, Jocelyn Olcott, Robert Ross, Rebecca Scott, Mrin-alini Sinha, Mary Turner, Kerry Ward, and Nigel Worden for their ongoing interest in our work. Kate Chedgzoy and Clifton Crais read the introduction at several critical moments. We thank them for their insightful comments as well as their support throughout the project. At Duke University Press, we have been fortunate to work with Valerie Millholland. We thank her, Miriam Angress, and the anonymous readers for the press, who helped us make this a better book. Woody Hickcox did the maps. We dedicate this volume to Pamela’s father, Larry Scully, and to Diana’s grandmother, Polly Epstein, who both died while we were working on this project.

The Atlantic World in the Age of Emancipation

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