Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil

Margarida Ignácio de Medeiros was one of up to twelve million enslaved Africans brought to Brazil. She did not, however, remain enslaved all her life. Margarida’s trajectory from enslavement to freedom was typical of many enslaved African women labouring in urban centres of nineteenth-century Brazil...

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Main Author: Collins, Jane-Marie
Format: Book Section
Published: Liverpool University Press 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2192/