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African women in the Atlantic world : property, vulnerability & mobility, 1660-1880
Title
African women in the Atlantic world : property, vulnerability & mobility, 1660-1880 / edited by Mariana P. Candido & Adam Jones.
ISBN
9781847012647
1847012647
9781847012135
1847012132
9781847012159
1847012159
Publication
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey in association with The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Originally published: 2019.
Published in association with the University of Notre Dame.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2023
Series
Western Africa series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-278) and index.
Contents
Adaptation in the aftermath of slavery : women, trade & property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790-1812 / Suzanne Schwarz
Women, land & power in the Lower Gambia River region / Assan Sarr
Women & food production : agriculture, demography & access to land in late eighteenth-century Catumbela / Esteban A. Salas
Women's material world in nineteenth-century Benguela / Mariana P. Candido
Prostitution, polyandry or rape? On the ambiguity of European sources for the West African Coast, 1660-1860 / Adam Jones
Parrying palavers : coastal Akan women & the search for security in the eighteenth century / Natalie Everts
To be female & free: mapping mobility & emancipation in Lagos, Badagry & Abeokuta 1853-1865 / Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi
Gendered authority, gendered violence : family, household & identity in the life & death of a Brazilian freed woman in Lagos / Kristin Mann
From child slave to Madam Esperance : one woman's career in the Anglo-African world c. 1675-1707 / Colleen E. Kriger
Writing the history of the trans-African woman in the revolutionary French Atlantic / Lorelle Semley
Spouses & commercial partners : immigrant men & locally born women in Luanda 1831-1859 / Vanessa S. Oliveira
Women, family & daily life in Senegal's nineteenth-century Atlantic towns / Hilary Jones.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Also listed under
University of Notre Dame. Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.
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