Chica da Silva
A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
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- Author: Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Date Published: November 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521711555
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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 from the Costa da Mina and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But the story of Chica da Silva 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 a woman’s agency, 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.
Read more- Explores issues of slavery, racial distinction, gender, social mobility, and local colonial policy
- Draws on a wide range of sources, including major archives in Brazil and Portugal, as well as literature on the colonial period in Portuguese and English
- For scholars in Atlantic history, African diaspora, slavery, gender, and Latin American history
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"...impressive, definitive study..." -Choice
See more reviews"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
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- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521711555
- length: 358 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 163 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of 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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Gender & Sexuality in Latin America
- Gender in Latin America and the Iberian World
- Introduction to Latin American History
- Slavery in Brazil
- Survey of Global History
- Survey of Latin American 2
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