Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas)

These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male, through these compact histories.

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• Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, 2nd Edition (Latin American Histories)
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• Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (Classic Histories from the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation)
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