Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
(Part of the New Approaches to the Americas Series)
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These 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; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521893534
ISBN13:9780521893534
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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