As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, Terri L. SnyderPublish date:2020-10-08Pages:528
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108737036ISBN-10:110873703XUPC:9781108737036Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.69Product ID:SCKS51YVR4
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108737036ISBN-10:110873703XUPC:9781108737036Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.69Product ID:SCKS51YVR4
Ball, Erica L.: - Erica L. Ball is Professor in the Department of History and the Black Studies Program at Occidental College, Los Angeles. She is co-editor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory (2017) and author of To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class (2012).Seijas, Tatiana: - Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the co-author of Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics (2017) and author of Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians (2014), which won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Book Prize.Snyder, Terri L.: - Terri L. Snyder is Professor in the Department of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (2015).
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