Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521893534)

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.

Author: Sandra Lauderdale Graham
ISBN-10: 0521893534
ISBN-13: 9780521893534
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2002
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d