LAUDERDALE GRAHAM, SANDRA

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

Book Condition: USED Fair
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NA.
Binding: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0521893534



These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male, through these compact histories.

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