‘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 …