Conceiving freedom: women of color, gender, and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

Part I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery

Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro

The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation

Part II. Seeking Freedom

As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making

Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World

I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom

Part III. Conceiving Freedom

Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom

She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom

My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom

Conclusion

Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship.

Part I. Gender, Law, and Urban Slavery

Sites of Enslavement, Spaces of Freedom : Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic Cities of Havana and Rio de Janeiro

The Law Is Final, Excellent Sir : Slave Law, Gender, and Gradual Emancipation

Part II. Seeking Freedom

As a Slave Woman and as a Mother : Law, Jurisprudence, and Rhetoric in Stories from Women's Claims-Making

Exaggerated and Sentimental? : Engendering Abolitionism in the Atlantic World

I Wish to Be in This City : Women and the Quest for Urban Freedom

Part III. Conceiving Freedom

Enlightened Mothers of Families or Competent Domestic Servants? : Elites Imagine the Meanings of Freedom

She Was Now a Free Woman : Ex-Slave Women and the Meanings of Urban Freedom

My Mother Was Free-Womb, She Wasn't a Slave : Conceiving Freedom

Conclusion

Epilogue: Conceiving Citizenship.