Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba

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ID19938111
AuthorsSarah L Franklin, Sarah Franklin (0000-0002-2958-1879, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages238
Publication date2012-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBoydell and Brewer (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781580467773
OpenAlexW4391395776
Open LibraryOL33457358M
ISBN9781580467773
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Genealogy · Geography · Cuban History and Society · History · 19th century · Cuba · Genusaspekter · Historia · Könsmaktsordning · Kvinnor och slaveri · Paternalism · Patriarchy · Sex role · Slaveri · Slavery · Social conditions · Women · Women slaves

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