Chica Da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
(Part of the New Approaches to the Americas Series)
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J?nia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But her story is not merely the personal history of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052171155X
ISBN13:9780521711555
Release Date:November 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:358 Pages
Weight:1.14 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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