Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World

Acknowledgments vii

Maps vii

Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1

Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35

Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844 / Pamela Scully 37

Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848 / Sue Peabody 56

Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79

Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99

A Nation's Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121

Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141

Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143

Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162

Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181

Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199

Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223

Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790-ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225

Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838-1888 / Sheena Boa 247

Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890-1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267

The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289

Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1878 / Marek Steedman 310

Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328

Contributors 357

Index 361