Gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic world

This collection of 16 essays written by authors from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, Brazil analyzes the slave emancipation from a gendered point of view. In the introduction a good overview of the impact and relevance of gender to slave emancipation is given. The book provides a comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world. All the diverse actors in slave emancipation are being discussed: slaves, abolitionists, free people of color, state officials. The book is divided into three parts: Men, women, citizens; Families, land, labor; The public sphere in the age of emancipation. Diana Paton, Pamela Scully: Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective (S. 1.); PART I: Men, Women, Citizens (S. 35); Pamela Scully: Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844 (S. 37); Sue Peabody: Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848 (S. 56); Mimi Sheller: Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica (S. 79); Roger A. Kittleson: Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism (S. 99); Carol Faulkner: A Nations Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople (S. 121); PART II: Families, Land, and Labor (S. 141); Bridget Brereton: Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean (S. 143); Martin Klein, Richard Roberts: Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa (S. 162); Michael Zeuske: Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World (S. 181); Ileana Rodriguez-Silva: Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico (S. 199); PART III: The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation (S. 223); Melanie Newton: Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790-ca. 1850 (S. 225); Sheena Boa: Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838-1888 (S. 247); Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan): Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890-1920 (S. 267); Hannah Rosen: The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas (S. 289); Marek Steedman: Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1878 (S. 310), Diana Paton: Bibliographic Essay (S. 328)