Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba

by Sarah L. Franklin

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

Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464025
• ISBN13: 9781580464024
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"