num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
publisher: Cambridge University Press