Chica da Silva : a Brazilian slave of the eighteenth century
Furtado, Junia Ferreira2008
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Furtado offers a study of the world of a freed woman of colour in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. Chica's story provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited. Jnia 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 around her in subsequent centuries, as Chica de Silva came to symbolize both an example of racial democracy and the stereotype of licentiousness and sensuality always attributed to the black or mulatta female in the Brazilian popular imagination.
Main title:
Chica da Silva : a Brazilian slave of the eighteenth century / Junia Ferreira Furtado.
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Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Collation:
335 p.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Land of stars; 2. Chica da Silva; 3. The diamond contractors; 4. Black diamond; 5. The lady of Tejuco; 6. Life in the village; 7. Mines of splendour; 8. Separation; 9. Disputes; 10. Destinies; 11. Chica the boss.
ISBN:
9780521711555 (pbk)9780521884655 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.362092306.362
Language:
English
Subject:
Silva, Chica da, approximately 1732-1796Slaves -- Brazil -- BiographySlavery -- Brazil -- History -- 18th centuryBiography & non-fiction proseAfrican historyHistory of the AmericasGender studies: women & girlsGeneral & world historySlavery & abolition of slaveryBrazil18th century, c 1700 to c 1799HistorySocial & cultural historyBiography: generalSouth & Central America, Latin AmericaBrazil -- Social conditions -- 18th centuryBiography
BRN:
2283936
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