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European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire Volume 16, 2009 - Issue 3: Slavery, Citizenship and the State in Classical Antiquity and the Modern Americas
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‘Uteis a si e a sociedade’Footnote1 or a brief guide to creolisation in nineteenth-century Brazil: black women, mobility, marriage and markets in Salvador da Bahia (1830–1888)

Jane-Marie Collins School of History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 413-436 | Received 01 Nov 2008, Accepted 01 Mar 2009, Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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