Caetana Says No Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society

Name: Caetana Says No Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
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ISBN: 9780521893534

ISBN-10: 0521893534

ISBN-13: 9780521893534

Edition: 2002

Authors: Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Stuart Schwartz

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This text gives true and dramatic accounts of two 19th century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His many books include "All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World".



List of Maps, Illustrations, Charts, and Tables


Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes


Note on Brazilian Spelling and Currency


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Maps


The First Story


Caetana Says No: Patriarchy Confounded


Settings


Workers


Family


Godparents


Captain Tolosa


Caetana


Annulment Denied


Epilogue


Sample Documents


Luis Mariano de Tolosa's Household, 1830


Manuel da Cunha de Azeredo Coutinho Souza Chichorro's Household, 1835


The Second Story


Inacia Wills Her Way: Patriarchy Confirmed


The Making of the Will


Choosing Heirs


The Will Revealed


The Contract


Werneck's Sense of Order


Epilogue


Sample Documents


Inacia's Will, 1857


Francisca's Will, 1849


Bibliography


Index