The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission And Emancipation of Slaves in Old World And New World Slavery (The Atlantic World) (The Atlantic World)

This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century. The aim of this work is to present a comparative forum for the study of freedpeople. By identifying what is separate and what is universal about freedpeople it hopes to add to a better understanding of the role and impact of manumission and emancipation in different slave societies. Contributors include: Valentina Arena, Steeve Buckridge, Mariana Dantas, Marc Kleijwegt, Martin Klein, Rita Reynolds, Chandima Wickramasinghe, Swithin Wilmot, and Nigel Worden. CONTENTS 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 12 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES 16 PART I EMANCIPATION AND MANUMISSION IN OLD AND NEW WORLD SLAVERY 18 CHAPTER ONE FREEDPEOPLE: A BRIEF CROSS-CULTURAL HISTORY --- Marc Kleijwegt 20 PART II FREEDPEOPLE IN A SLAVE SOCIETY 86 CHAPTER TWO LIBERTI AND LIBERTAS: A CALL FOR CIVIC FREEDOM --- Valentina Arena 88 CHAPTER THREE FREED SLAVES, SELF-PRESENTATION AND CORPORATE IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN WORLD --- Marc Kleijwegt 106 CHAPTER FOUR REDEMPTION OF SLAVES IN ANCIENT SRI LANKA --- Chandima Wickramasinghe 134 CHAPTER FIVE WEALTHY FREE WOMEN OF COLOUR IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING SLAVERY --- Rita Reynolds 154 CHAPTER SIX INHERITANCE PRACTICES AMONG INDIVIDUALS OF AFRICAN ORIGIN AND DESCENT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL --- Mariana Dantas 170 PART III FREEDPEOPLE AFTER EMANCIPATION 200 CHAPTER SEVEN COERCION AND FREEDOM IN THE CAPE COLONY, 1652–1856 --- Nigel Worden 202 CHAPTER EIGHT “WE NOT SLAVE AGAIN”: ENSLAVED JAMAICANS IN EARLY FREEDOM, 1838–1865 --- Swithin Wilmot 232 CHAPTER NINE DRESS: FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM AMONG JAMAICAN COLONISED WOMEN, 1790–1890 --- Steeve Buckridge 250 CHAPTER TEN AFTER SLAVERY IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA: THE PROBLEM OF THE INVISIBLE SLAVE --- Martin Klein 282 INDEX 304 DumpedBookmarks "This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern States of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century. The aim of this work is to present a comparative forum for the study of freed people. By identifying what is separate and what is universal about freed people it hopes to add to a better understanding of the role and impact of manumission and emancipation in different slave societies."--Jacket