Chica Da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

by Junia Ferreira Furtado and Júnia Ferreira Furtado

Book Overview

J?nia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But her story is not merely the personal history of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052171155X
• ISBN13: 9780521711555
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"