- the
strength of the
signares in the time
period and Portugual's
growing inability to
control the people. The
social status of
signares also
allowed for greater...
- The
signares owned ships and
property and
commanded male clerks. They were also
famous for
cultivating fashion and entertainment. One such
signare, Anne...
- the
position of
signares. This
status level didn’t
change the fact that they were
still under the
order of
their husbands.
Signares became a
class between...
- a
signare who
lived in the home in the
early 19th century.
Senegalese signares were wealthy,
colonial women traders. The Pépin
family owned several ships...
- works[permanent dead link]:
African Studies Centre,
Leiden Histoire des
Signares de Gorée du 17ie au 19ie siécle. Poèmes de Léopold Sédar
Senghor Biographie...
- freely, no man bidding, bore. ante
Iouem nulli subigebant arua
coloni ne
signare quidem aut
partiri limite campum fas erat; in
medium quaerebant, ipsaque...
- Franco-African Creole, or Métis,
merchant community characterized by the
famous "
signares", or
bourgeois women entrepreneurs, grew up in Saint-Louis
during the 17th...
-
people (United States)
Marriage à la façon du pays
Morganatic marriage Signare Tobacco brides Aslakson,
Kenneth (2012). "The 'Quadroon-Plaçage' Myth of...
- and
wealth within their societies.
Signares held
great amounts of property, both
housing and slaves.
Signares created powerful social bonds and status...
-
owner of Gorée: in 1767, she
owned 68
slaves in a
community where most
signares sold
slaves rather than
keeping them for
their personal use. In 1756, she...
