However, in Last Night the disintegration of social life is concomitnnt with the emergence of an ideologically manumitted society. |
On May 13, 1888 all Brazilian slaves were manumitted. |
Nicarete was a freedwoman and married to a certain Hippias, a cook and probably also a manumitted slave. |
There are many reasons that could explain why women were disproportionately represented in manumitted Brazilian slaves. |
For the newly manumitted, Emancipation Day provided an outlet to reflect upon the vast possibilities of freedom from enslavement. |
They manumitted them if they were children of slave women and deeded them property. |