果冻传媒

News! Come along to a roundtable on slavery and Eastern Caribbean rebellions, Tuesday 27 Jan 1-3, FAB 5.30. With visiting fellow Dr Angus Martin and 3 果冻传媒 historians of the Caribbean.

For this week, in addition to the weekly reading, please find ONE PRIMARY SOURCE from the list on the main bibliography at the top that you are thinking of using for your source-based essay (it doesn't need to link to this week's topic). Make a note of page numbers or links so that we can look it up in groups in class. Why did you choose it? What is its value as a source? Are there other primary sources it would work well with perhaps? How are you thinking of using it in the essay?

Session powerpoint

Seminar Questions

• Why were so many women manumitted in Brazil, Cuba, and other 鈥淚berian鈥� slave societies? Was women鈥檚 high manumission rate limited to these societies?
• Was the pursuit of manumission 鈥渞esistance鈥�, 鈥渁ccommodation,鈥� or neither?
• Was it collective or individual?
• Should it be attributed to sexual relations with owners and other powerful men?

Readings: choose at least 1 plus the above primary source:

• Proctor III, Frank 鈥淭rey.鈥� 鈥淕ender and the Manumission of Slaves in New Spain.鈥� Hispanic American Historical Review, 86:2 (2006): 309-36.
• Cowling, Camillia (2013), "Introduction"

Further reading:

• Grinberg, Keila. 鈥淔reedom Suits and Civil Law in Brazil and the United States.鈥� Slavery and Abolition, 22:3 (December 2001): 66-82.
• Karasch, Mary. . Princeton University Press, 1987. [E-book at library], Chapter 11: 鈥淭he Letter of Liberty,鈥� pp 335-70
• Aisnara Perera D铆az and Mar铆a de los 脕ngeles Meri帽o Fuentes, "The African Women of the Dos Hermanos Slave Ship in Cuba: Slaves First, Mothers Second." Women's History Review (published online June 2017, in special issue "Mothering Slaves," eds. Camillia Cowling, Maria Helena Machado, Diana Paton and Emily West)
• , eds. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, Terri L Synder (CUP, 2020) (many of the essays in this volume we started reading last week contain useful perspectives on women and manumission)
• Pamela Scully and Diana Paton, eds., 2005
• Teresa Prados Torreira The Power of her Will Alabama University Press, (on women owners as enslavers and as manumitters)
• Cowling, Camillia. 鈥淎s a Slave Woman and as a Mother: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro.鈥� Social History, 26:3 (August 2011), 294-311
• Vera Kutsinski Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993 [wider context on mestizaje in national imaginary]