10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FREEDWOMAN»
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freedwoman in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
freedwoman and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman
Freedwoman
Just as a male patron, so too his son, grandson, and great-grandson, if they have
consented to the marriage of a freedwoman, lose the exaction of services: for the
woman to whose marriage a male patron has consented ought to be in the ...
2
Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas ...
Although history has not credited Azeline Hearne with influencing the course of the law, the story of her uniquely difficult position after the Civil War gives an unprecedented view of the era and of one solitary woman's attempt to ...
3
My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century
Freedwoman ...
Beloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history--and finds tartan plaid, unlikely lovers, and Confederate soldiers.
4
Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on ...
Because marriage to her patron elevated a freedwoman to the level of a
respectably married woman, he could not demand the services (operae) normally
expected of ex-slaves by their patrons [see Gardner 1993, 20–32 on operae].
Judith Evans Grubbs, 2002
5
Women in Roman Law and Society
Basing her analysis on detailed study of literacy and epigraphic material, Gardener explores the provisions of the Roman laws as they related to women. Discussed are the ways in which the laws affected women throughout their lives.
6
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome
Clem. t8 ad legem luliam et Papiam) D. 23.2.48.1: St ignominiosam libertam
suam patronus uxorem duxerit, placet, quia contra legem maritus sit, non habere
cum hoc legis benefieium. lf a patron marries his own freedwoman even though
she ...
Thomas A. J. McGinn, 1998
In 186 B.C., in thanks for having given evidence to the magistrates in the affair of
the Bacchanalian rites, the Senate granted the freedwoman Faecenia Hispala,
among other exceptional privileges, that of being able to marry without the ...
8
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and ...
Telling federal officials in the nation's capital that ''she had been a long time in
want of a bureau'' and that ''she understood that there was one there waiting for
her,'' the freedwoman attempted to take advantage of the federal government's ...
9
The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
Nero had fallen in love with a freedwoman called Acte, * and had at the same
time enlisted as his confidants Marcus Otho * and Claudius Senecio, good-
looking young men (Otho came from a consular family, * and Senecio had an
imperial ...
10
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in ...
In that poor freedwoman's broken ejaculation, "Linkum dead — but God, God still
libin," I find the only solace for your smitten heart and mine.73 The "broken"
speech of the freedwoman, in Cuyler's anecdote, can heal the hearts of the
nation's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FREEDWOMAN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
freedwoman is used in the context of the following news items.
Juneteenth Is for Everyone
“We all walked down the road singing and shouting to beat the band,” a Texas freedwoman recounted. “Black men pitched their hats high in the ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
A Christian genius and her inspired account of the life of Pilate's wife
Her story is told by the device of a letter, written from Rome by Claudia's maidservant, a Greek freedwoman, Praxedis, to a correspondent in ... «Catholic Herald Online, Apr 15»
Historian releases fuller version of Nat Fuller biography
Fuller was apprenticed to Eliza Lee, a caterer and restaurateur whose mother was a freedwoman trained by a London-based pastry chef. «Charleston Post Courier, Jan 15»
From Idle No More to a Civil Rights Movement
... solidify someone's recognition of personhood – whether a woman, an immigrant, someone Indigenous or freedman or freedwoman. «rabble.ca, Oct 14»
African encounters in Roman Britain
... freedwoman and wife of Barates from Palmyra in Syria. Together these individuals, and the many other ethnic groups commemorated on the ... «OUPblog, Sep 14»
The Atlantic Writer Ta-Nehesi Coates Examines Reparations For …
Coates words regarding the case for reparations are especially potent, opening that portion of his feature using the case of freedwoman ... «Hip-Hop Wired, May 14»
A Review of 'The House That Will Not Stand' in New Haven
The widow (Lizan Mitchell) certainly sees plaçage as slavery; as a freedwoman, she has been fed up with the American racial laws since the ... «New York Times, May 14»
How gossip blogs became the main public record for black culture
The Freedwoman's Bureau, by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and 500 Days Asunder, by Rembert Browne, were both insightful blogs that turned a ... «Salon, Apr 14»
A Meal To Honor Early African-American Cookbook Authors
She was born in Tennessee around 1820. Her grandmother was a freedwoman, and freedom, she suggests, was her birthright, although there ... «NPR, Feb 14»
Hollywood comes to terms with slavery
The famous freedwoman and abolitionist lecturer Sojourner Truth slaved for two different tavern keepers in upstate New York. Her first memory ... «Al Jazeera America, Nov 13»
