Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba

Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Patriarchy, Paternalism, and the Development of the Slave Society

1. Virgins and Mothers
2. Wives
3. Pupils
4. The Needy
5. Wet Nurses

Conclusion: Shifting Landscape
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sarah L. Franklin

Summary

Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves

Product details

• Authors: Sarah L Franklin, Sarah L. Franklin, Sarah L. (Customer) Franklin
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9781580464024
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-402-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Weight: 548 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w illus.
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories