Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation

This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first decades of the twentieth century. Grounded in original research that draws from diverse sources and favors biographies, the book offers a broad and fascinating picture of the experiences of African women-those born in Africa and in Brazil, those captive and those emancipated-the first agents of the emancipated community of Africans, and their descendants in the diaspora.

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Contents Introduction 1. Women of Diverse "Types" and their Last Wills and Testaments in the Colonial, Slave, and Mestizo Captaincy of Minas Gerais | Eduardo França Paiva 2. Women of African Descent in Bahia: Gender, Color and Social Mobility, 1780-1830 | Adriana Dantas Reis 3. Three Black Women Who Changed the Game in 18th Century Minas Gerais | Luciano Figueiredo 4. Queens and Judges: Black Women in the Black Sisterhoods of Central Brazil, 1722-1860 | Mary Karasch 5. Among Characters, Typologies, and Labels of "Difference": The Slave Woman in the 19th Century Fiction of Rio de Janeiro | Giovana Xavier 6. Enslaved Women in 19th Century Paraíba: Work, Contradictions, and Fights for Freedom | Solange P. Rocha 7. Mônica da Costa and Teresa de Jesus: Free African Women, Status, and Social Networks in 19th Century Recife | Valéria Gomes Costa 8. Under the Rule of Women: Marriage and Divorce among the "Minas" African Ethnic Group in 19th Century Rio de Janeiro | Juliana Barreto Farias 9. A Certain Freedom | Sandra Lauderdale Graham 10. "With Her, He Lived Like a Dog Lives with a Cat": Emancipation, Maternity, and Gender on the Southern Border | Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira 11. Gender Relations in the Daily Life of Black Women in 19th Century Bahia | Isabel Cristina Ferreira dos Reis 12. To Grandma Vitorina, With Love. Rio De Janeiro, Around 1870 | Sandra Sofia Machado Koutsoukos 13. Between Two Benedicts: Stories of Wet Nurses in the Decline of Slavery | Maria Helena P. T. Machado 14. The "Livro de Ouro" (Golden Book), Emancipation Fund and Enslaved Women: Gender, Abolition, and the Meanings of Freedom in the Court, 1880s | Camillia Cowling 15. Teodora Dias da Cunha: Constructing a Place for Herself in the World of Writing and Slavery | Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach 16. Women of the House: Black Women and Domestic Work in the Imperial Court | Flavia Fernandes de Souza 17. Zizinha Guimarães: Between History and Memory | Petrônio Domingues 18. "Around the World" with Women of Capoeira: Gender and Black Culture in Brazil, 1850-1920 | Antônio Liberac Cardoso Simões Pires 19. Histories of Differences and Inequalities Revisited: Notes on Gender, Slavery, Race, and Post-Emancipation | Marcelo Paixão and Flavio Gomes