Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

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Conceiving Freedom This page intentionally left blank Conceiving FREEDOM ^& Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro camillia cowling The University of North Carolina Press chapel hill © 2013 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Miller by Integrated Book Technology. Manufactured in the United States of America. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cowling, Camillia. Conceiving freedom : women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro / Camillia Cowling. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4696-1087-0 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-1-4696-1088-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978-1-4696-1089-4 (ebook) 1. Women slaves—Cuba—Havana—History—19th century. 2. Women slaves—Brazil— Rio de Janeiro—History—19th century. 3. Women slaves—Legal status, laws, etc.— Cuba—Havana—History—19th century. 4. Women slaves—Legal status, laws, etc.— Brazil—Rio de Janeiro—History—19th century. 5. Antislavery movements—Cuba— Havana—History—19th century. 6. Antislavery movements—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro— History—19th century. 7. Havana (Cuba)—Race relations—History—19th century. 8. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)—Race relations—History—19th century. I. Title. ht1076.c69 2013 306.3'62082—dc23 2013025582 Portions of this work have appeared previously, in somewhat different form, as “‘As a Slave Woman and as a Mother’: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro,” Social History 36, no. 3 (2011): 294–311, reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals; “Debating Womanhood, Defining Freedom: The Abolition of Slavery in 1880s Rio de Janeiro,” Gender and History 22, no. 2 (August 2010): 284–301, © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., reprinted by permission of John Wiley and Sons; and (coauthored with Celso Castilho), “Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review 47, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 89–120, © 2010 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, reprinted courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press. cloth 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 paper 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 To my parents, Mark and Amani Cowling, with love and gratitude ...