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.
Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of Slave and free, female and.
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.
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
