During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records.
Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection—as well as oppression—while the street could be dangerous—but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s.

House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Lauderdale Graham, Sandra

History

University of Texas Press

Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas)

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.

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

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House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas)

Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas)