Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima by Tamara J. Walker

Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima

Tamara J. Walker

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional his...

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