Voltado às amplas repercussões da mobilização abolicionista dos anos 1880, este artigo ressalta o... more Voltado às amplas repercussões da mobilização abolicionista dos anos 1880, este artigo ressalta os fundos de emancipação locais no Rio de Janeiro (Corte) e no Recife como espaços importantes para a articulação da política popular. Examinamos dois tipos de fundos locais, o primeiro criado por iniciativas populares no Recife, e o segundo produto da câmara municipal da Corte. Salientamos, na primeira parte, que os significados políticos dos fundos de emancipação mudaram ao longo da década de 1880, sendo esta trajetória um exemplo do percurso aturdido da política da abolição. Os fundos de emancipação locais também alteraram as dinâmicas tradicionais da política, modificando as interações entre as esferas locais e nacionais, entre grupos populares e a elite. Na segunda parte, analisamos as operações cotidianas dos fundos. O uso de rituais públicos e a procura de donativos locais estenderam o alcance dos fundos a setores sociais previamente afastados do processo político. Os próprios escr...
... She then appealed for the money to be used instead to free her daughter, Agustina, a slave on... more ... She then appealed for the money to be used instead to free her daughter, Agustina, a slave on the same plantation. ... and Early Nineteenth Century Suriname', paper presented to the Associ-ation of Caribbean Historians, Havana, April 1117, 1999) and Sheila de Castro Faria ...
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the e... more 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.
This original study addresses at least two important gaps within historical analyses of nineteent... more This original study addresses at least two important gaps within historical analyses of nineteenth-century Cuba: the lives and experiences of women, both white and of colour, and the intersections ...
Voltado às amplas repercussões da mobilização abolicionista dos anos 1880, este artigo ressalta o... more Voltado às amplas repercussões da mobilização abolicionista dos anos 1880, este artigo ressalta os fundos de emancipação locais no Rio de Janeiro (Corte) e no Recife como espaços importantes para a articulação da política popular. Examinamos dois tipos de fundos locais, o primeiro criado por iniciativas populares no Recife, e o segundo produto da câmara municipal da Corte. Salientamos, na primeira parte, que os significados políticos dos fundos de emancipação mudaram ao longo da década de 1880, sendo esta trajetória um exemplo do percurso aturdido da política da abolição. Os fundos de emancipação locais também alteraram as dinâmicas tradicionais da política, modificando as interações entre as esferas locais e nacionais, entre grupos populares e a elite. Na segunda parte, analisamos as operações cotidianas dos fundos. O uso de rituais públicos e a procura de donativos locais estenderam o alcance dos fundos a setores sociais previamente afastados do processo político. Os próprios escr...
... She then appealed for the money to be used instead to free her daughter, Agustina, a slave on... more ... She then appealed for the money to be used instead to free her daughter, Agustina, a slave on the same plantation. ... and Early Nineteenth Century Suriname', paper presented to the Associ-ation of Caribbean Historians, Havana, April 1117, 1999) and Sheila de Castro Faria ...
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the e... more 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.
This original study addresses at least two important gaps within historical analyses of nineteent... more This original study addresses at least two important gaps within historical analyses of nineteenth-century Cuba: the lives and experiences of women, both white and of colour, and the intersections ...
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