Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society

by Sandra Lauderdale Graham

Book Overview

These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893534
• ISBN13: 9780521893534
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"