Paths to freedom manumission in the Atlantic world

Three notes of freedom: the nature of consequences of manumission / Orlando PattersonManumission in metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / William D. Phillips Jr. -- The promise of freedom in late medieval Valencia / Debra G. Blumenthal -- Transformations in t...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brana-Shute, Rosemary (HerausgeberIn), Sparks, Randy J. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Columbia, S.C University of South Carolina Press c2009
Schriftenreihe:The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
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Zusammenfassung:Three notes of freedom: the nature of consequences of manumission / Orlando PattersonManumission in metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / William D. Phillips Jr. -- The promise of freedom in late medieval Valencia / Debra G. Blumenthal -- Transformations in the manumission of slaves by Jews from east to west: pressures from the Atlantic slave trade / Jonathan Schorsch -- Manumission and the life cycle of a contained population: The VOC lodge slaves at the Cape of Good Hope, 1680-1730 / Mary Caroline Cravens -- Paths to freedom: imperial defense and manumission in Havana, 1762-1800 / Evelyn P. Jennings -- How free is free? the limits of manumission for enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century British West Indian sugar society / John F. Campbell -- Manumission in an entrepôt: the case of Curaçao / Willem Wubbo Klooster -- Sex and gender in Surinamese manumissions / Rosemary Brana-Shute -- Child abandonment and foster care in colonial Brazil: expostos and the free population of African descent in eighteenth-century Minas Gerais / Mariana L. R. Dantas -- Manumission, gender, and the law in nineteenth-century Brazil: liberata's legal suit for freedom / Keila Grinberg -- Conflicts over the meanings of freedom: the liberated Africans' struggle for final emancipation in Brazil, 1840s-1860s / Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian -- From "no country!" to "our country!" living out manumission and the boundaries of rights and citizenship, 1773-1855 / Scott Hancock -- "If the rest stay, I will stay; if they go, I will go": how slaves' familial bonds affected American colonization society manumissions / Eric Burin -- Manumission and the two-race system in early national Virginia / Eva Sheppard Wolf -- The slave owner's family and manumission in the post-revolutionary Chesapeake Tidewater: evidence from Anne Arundel county wills, 1790-1820 / Sean Condon -- Liberation in a rural context: the valley of Virginia, 1800-1860 / Ellen Eslinger.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 397 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9781570037740
978-1-57003-774-0