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This article explores how enslaved and freed women in Rio de Janeiro and Havana, the capital cities of the Americas’ last two slaveholding territories, played a crucial and specific part in helping speed and shape the gradual emancipation processes that unfolded simultaneously in each context during the 1870s and 1880s.
Asset Type: | Publications |
Collection: | Foreign Publications |
Subject: | Women, Slavery, Abolition, Havana, Cuba, Rio de Janiero, Brazil |
Author: | Camilla Cowling |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Publication Date: | October 2011 |