By Pamela Scully,Diana Paton,Sue Peabody
Offering precise analyses of slave emancipation in particular societies, the members speak about all the varied actors in emancipation: slaves, abolitionists, loose humans of colour, kingdom officers, and slave vendors. even if contemplating the development of a postslavery masculine subjectivity in Jamaica, the paintings of 2 white U.S. abolitionist ladies with the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil battle, freedwomen’s negotiations of work rights in Puerto Rico, slave women’s contributions to the sluggish unraveling of slavery in French West Africa, or the ways in which Brazilian abolitionists deployed representations of femininity as virtuous and ethical, those essays exhibit the profits gendered technique deals to figuring out the advanced techniques of emancipation. a few chapters additionally discover theories and methodologies that let a gendered analyzing of postslavery data. The editors’ titanic creation strains the explanations for and styles of women’s and men’s diversified reports of emancipation in the course of the Atlantic world.
Contributors. Martha Abreu, Sheena Boa, Bridget Brereton, Carol Faulkner, Roger Kittleson, Martin Klein, Melanie Newton, Diana Paton, Sue Peabody, Richard Roberts, Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva, Hannah Rosen, Pamela Scully, Mimi Sheller, Marek Steedman, Michael Zeuske
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