"Insolent, quarrelsome, noisey and troublesome": women's street fights and noise in St Barthélemy in 1835.
Like many port cities in the 19th-century Caribbean, the free port of Gustavia in the Swedish-Caribbean colony of St Barthélemy had a high ratio of women to men, many of whom were enslaved women or free women of colour, disenfranchised under Swedish colonial law. They were present in public life, an...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 333 - 352 |
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