This book examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her…
This book explores the institution of manumission - the freeing of slaves - in ancient Rome.
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexua…
This collection of 21 papers, selected from presentations internationally, reflect the depth and focus of Professor Shepherd's work over the past ten years, in the areas of conquest and colonialization, slavery and anti-slavery, post-slavery society, the project of decolonializa…
by Davis, Angela Y., (Angela Yvonne)
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by Beckles, Hilary McD, Verene, Shepherd, Shepherd, Beckles
For abstracts see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 103.
"When Emancipation came in 1838, Blacks in Barbados im︠agined that the terms of their everyday lives would undergo radical change. Instead, an unrelenting 'landless freedom' would be violently imposed upon a community whose conditions of life and work remained largely unchanged, …
Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom, prior to and in the decades following their emancipation in 1834. Their continued efforts in the face of oppression complicate common definitions of freedom and narr…
