Name: Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood. Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888
SKU: 65761290
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Author: Jane-Marie Collins
ISBN: 9781805966326

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Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood. Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Author

Jane-Marie Collins

Collection

Liverpool Studies in International Slavery

Year

2026

Pages

440

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9781805966326

Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood. Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888

Jane-Marie Collins (Author) · Liverpool University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood. Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888"

#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 finalist Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and freedom in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The central concern within the book is how African and African descendant women navigated enslaved motherhood and negotiated the divide between enslavement and freedom for themselves and their children. The book is, therefore, organised around the subject position of the enslaved mother and the reproduction of her children in enslavement, while the condition of enslaved motherhood is examined through overlapping historical praxis evidenced in nineteenth-century Bahia: contested freedom, racialised mothering, and competing maternal interests - biological, ritual, surrogate. The point at which these interests converged historically was, it is argued, a conflict over black female reproductive rights.