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Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
Júnia Ferreira Furtado
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Description for Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
hardcover. A study of Chica da Silva, a freed woman of color in a Brazilian town. Series: New Approaches to the Americas. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
Júnia 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 a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created ... Read more
Júnia 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 a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Series
New Approaches to the Americas
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521884655
SKU
V9780521884655
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About Júnia Ferreira Furtado
Junia Furtado holds a Ph.D. in Social History from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently a Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Her work on Chica da Silva has won awards from the Carlos Chagas Foundation for Women and Gender Research and the Ford Foundation. She has also contributed articles to Cartografia da ... Read more
Reviews for Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
"...impressive, definitive study..." -Choice "In Chica da Silva, Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a compelling account of the life and world of Francisca da Silva de Oliveira." -Mariana L. R. Dantas, Journal of Social History "excellent book...moves beyond the myths to uncover ther real Chica." -Katherine Holt, Journal of World History