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A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave
from Part II - Bounded Emancipations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
This chapter traces the parallel life stories spun by a single woman – “Benedicta” to some and “Ovídia” to others – in pursuit of freedom in 1880s Brazil. Building upon a vast historiography, it uses a single microhistory to recuperate the social practices, ways of life, and world visions that resided below the surface of judicial testimony. In so doing, it opens an important window through which we can apprehend the ways in which women on the borders of slavery and freedom constructed their identity during Brazil’s age of abolition.
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