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Gendered geographies : motherhood, slavery, law and space in nineteenth-century Cuba
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Cowling, Camillia (2018) Gendered geographies : motherhood, slavery, law and space in nineteenth-century Cuba. Women's History Review, 27 (6). pp. 939-953. doi:10.1080/09612025.2017.1336845
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1336845
Abstract
On 2 August 1883, in Havana, a free black woman named Juana Mojena had a petition drafted on her behalf to the Governor General regarding her young daughter Dolores Mojena. Although Juana had obtained freedom, Dolores remained a patrocinada (apprentice) under the patronato system that, from 1880, heralded the gradual ending of slavery in Cuba. The petition requested Dolores be freed because her owner was not complying with his legal obligations to educate, feed and clothe her. Juana had presented several previous petitions, not only in Havana where she lived, but much further afield: “Since the patrono of her aforementioned daughter lives in Guanajay , … she travelled there, where she attended constantly at the Junta Local de Patronato” [local patronato board]. Afterwards, however, “she returned to Havana without having achieved anything, and after a few days, she presented a claim to the Provincial Government, explaining her unfruitful trip to Guanajay.” Finally, she asked that the Gobernador General “order that her daughter be moved, in order to be heard by the Havana Junta, and the appellant will fund the costs of the journey”.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women slaves -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century, Women slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba --History -- 19th century, Women -- Cuba -- Social conditions, Place (Philosophy) in literature, Slaves -- Cuba -- History, Blacks -- Cuba -- History, Slaves -- Emancipation -- Cuba, Motherhood -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Women's History Review | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0961-2025 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 939-953 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09612025.2017.1336845 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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