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6 - Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition

A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave

from Part II - Bounded Emancipations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Brodwyn Fischer
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Keila Grinberg
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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This chapter traces the parallel life stories spun by a single woman – “Benedicta” to some and “Ovídia” to others – in pursuit of freedom in 1880s Brazil. Building upon a vast historiography, it uses a single microhistory to recuperate the social practices, ways of life, and world visions that resided below the surface of judicial testimony. In so doing, it opens an important window through which we can apprehend the ways in which women on the borders of slavery and freedom constructed their identity during Brazil’s age of abolition.

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The Boundaries of Freedom
Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
, pp. 163 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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