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As If She Were Free - A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas (Paperback, New Ed)
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As If She Were Free - A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas (Paperback, New Ed)
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As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four
women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed
women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth
through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical
approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration,
trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of
individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and
freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal
protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic,
personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining
emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in
authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these
life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation,
claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and
defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring
range of ways.
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