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

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; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. 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. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male, through these compact histories.

• Author
• Sandra Lauderdale Graham

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 208

• Series
• New Approaches to the Americas

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521893534

• Genres
• history, brazil, school

• Release date
• 2002