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"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabará, Minas Gerais (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780271032702)
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Kathleen J. Higgins
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To studies of Brazilian slavery, this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in...
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xTo studies of Brazilian slavery, this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared with slaves who worked in sugar-cane and coffee-growing areas.
The interactions among masters, slaves, and royal officials were profoundly shaped by the accessibility and widespread dispersal of gold deposits, the emergence of small urban centers in which commercial activities thrived, the sexual division of labor among slaves working in mining and commerce, and the changing sex ratio within the population of free white colonists settling in the region.
Focusing attention on the changing status, autonomy, and influence of non-White women, the author argues, is one of the most effective ways of understanding the economic, demographic, and cultural evolution of the slave society as a whole.
Author: Kathleen J. Higgins
ISBN-10: 0271032707
ISBN-13: 9780271032702
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/1999
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
About the Author
Kathleen J. Higgins is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa.
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