This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative
history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing
together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico,
West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone
Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered
process, produced through connections between race, gender,
sexuality, and class. Contributors from the United States, Canada,
Europe, the Caribbean, and Brazil explore how the processes of
emancipation involved the re-creation of gender identities--the
production of freed"men" and freed"women" with different rights,
responsibilities, and access to citizenship.
Offering detailed analyses of slave emancipation in specific
societies, the contributors discuss all of the diverse actors in
emancipation: slaves, abolitionists, free people of color, state
officials, and slave owners. Whether considering the construction
of a postslavery masculine subjectivity in Jamaica, the work of two
white U.S. abolitionist women with the Freedmen's Bureau after the
Civil War, freedwomen's negotiations of labor rights in Puerto
Rico, slave women's contributions to the slow unraveling of slavery
in French West Africa, or the ways that Brazilian abolitionists
deployed representations of femininity as virtuous and moral, these
essays demonstrate the gains that a gendered approach offers to
understanding the complex processes of emancipation. Some chapters
also explore theories and methodologies that enable a gendered
reading of postslavery archives. The editors' substantial
introduction traces the reasons for and patterns of women's and
men's different experiences of emancipation throughout 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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