A comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world
A comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world
Pamela Scully has a joint appointment in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Diana Paton is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870 and the editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments vii Maps vii Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1 Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35 Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 / Pamela Scully 37 Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 / Sue Peabody 56 Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79 Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99 A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121 Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141 Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143 Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162 Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181 Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199 Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223 Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225 Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 / Sheena Boa 247 Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890—1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267 The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289 Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 / Marek Steedman 310 Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328 Contributors 357 Index 361
Acknowledgments vii Maps vii Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1 Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35 Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 / Pamela Scully 37 Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 / Sue Peabody 56 Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79 Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99 A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121 Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141 Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143 Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162 Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181 Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199 Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223 Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225 Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 / Sheena Boa 247 Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890—1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267 The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289 Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 / Marek Steedman 310 Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328 Contributors 357 Index 361
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