CAETANA SAYS NO PDF

Caetana Says No – by Sandra Lauderdale Graham September Caetana Says No has 92 ratings and 4 reviews. Hanna said: This is NOT a good introductory book into the subject matter of slavery. [Also, this is a good. These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family;.

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Caetana says no: women’s stories from a Brazilian slave society.

Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male, through these compact histories. Unlike many authors who find a remarkable source and describe it without context, Graham is most careful to situate her historical subjects within the families of a specific slave society.

Perhaps Caetana resisted a true marriage because she intended to become a beata, a lay religious woman. The short length of the book combined with photographs will Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male.

Toussi21 rated it it was amazing Dec 06, Asys think these could have been publish not a good book really. Browse related items Start at call number: View freely available titles: Each narrative is based on a core document: Kortnee rated it liked it Jan 25, All of these women, and mo planters in their lives, may have been motivated by nineteenth-century popular religious beliefs; the difficulty is to find a way to document them.

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Caetana Says No by Sandra Lauderdale Graham (ebook)

These are the narratives of exceptional women in nineteenth-century Brazil. Graham’s ability to highlight the differences between the individual stories and what was considered typical and her insistence on informing the reader that there is still much we cannot know about these women’s stories are where the book sajs most of its value.

I appreciate Graham’s micro view at such a large issue, and how straightforwardly each story is told. I more preferred the second story of the elderly woman who freed slaves in her will, but that was because it caetaana by faster and was better written.

These stories individually nuance the taught history surrounding slavery, and as such should not be read with the aims of gaining an overview of slavery.

Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Gabriel Clavell rated it liked it Sayys 07, Unfortunately, we do not know what happened to her after her petition for the annulment was denied and she was ordered “to go live with her husband. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch’s role to endow a family of her former slaves These true and dramatic stories of caetnaa nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life.

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Charlotte Textor rated it really liked it Apr 30, Trivia About Caetana Says No: The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch’s role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life.

Caetana Says No: Women’s Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society

By Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Ata Hualpa rated it liked it Dec 30, Women’s Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references p. Anne rated ceatana it was ok Apr 29, Taylor rated it really liked it Jan 29, This brief reference suggests that we need to know more about the religious belief system by which the women ordered their lives.

Physical description xxii, p. SearchWorks Catalog Stanford Libraries. In so far as her voice entered the official record, Caetana’s master reported that she did not castana to marry anyone p.

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