‘As a slave woman and as a mother’: women and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

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



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