Signares were black and mulatto Senegalease women who have an influence via their marriage with European men and their patrimony. These women of color...
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The signares owned ships and property and commanded male clerks. They were also famous for cultivating fashion and entertainment. One such signare, Anne...
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A signature (/ˈsɪɡnɪtʃər, ˈsɪɡnətʃər/; from Latin: signare, "to sign") is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or...
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freely, no man bidding, bore. ante Iouem nulli subigebant arua coloni ne signare quidem aut partiri limite campum fas erat; in medium quaerebant, ipsaque...
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politician and a noble descendant of Métis signare Goree. He was the son of Pierre Angrand (1820–?) and the rich signare Helena St. John (1826–1859, died in...
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Christian Jacob Protten Carl Christian Reindorf Africa portal Gold Coast Signare Atlantic Creole Americo-Liberians Sierra Leone Creole people "Gold Coast...
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century to one of a class wealthy, colonial, Senegalese woman trader (the Signares), Anne Pépin or Anna Colas Pépin. Researchers argue that while the houseowner...
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Anne Pépin (category Signare)
capital of Senegal from Saint Louts to Gorée. Pépin held the designation of signare, a prestigious social and economic designation for women who formed partnerships...
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people (United States) Marriage à la façon du pays Morganatic marriage Signare Tobacco brides Aslakson, Kenneth (2012). "The 'Quadroon-Plaçage' Myth of...
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based on her interviews in 1927 with Cudjoe Lewis Seasoning (slavery) Signare Atlantic Creole House of Slaves Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins...
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Caty Louette (category Signare)
African signare-mistress Caty de Rufisque of Gorée. Her mother was perhaps the first Gorée-signare who is documented. Louette became the signare-consort...
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City with her husband; the couple has four children. Mandeleau published Signare Anna, a historical novel, in 1991. "Tita Mandeleau". Francophone African...
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Marie Baude (section Signares)
intricate dynamics of the transatlantic slave trade era, from her ascent as a signare, wielding influence amid the trade, to the events surrounding her husband's...
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garderont le silence. Deux lauriers roses-blanc et rose-embaumeront la Signare. When I'm dead, my friends, place me below Shadowy Joal, On the hill, by...
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shoe-manufacturing. Coloureds Creoles of color Mauritian Creoles Mulatto Haitian Signare Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution...
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and wealth within their societies. Signares held great amounts of property, both housing and slaves. Signares created powerful social bonds and status...
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self-forgetting. The "signature" can be interpreted as a reference to the Latin verb signare and this word, instead of Freud's signore, then leads to a simple analysis...
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Inter-caste marriage Marriage à la façon du pays Misyar marriage Plaçage Signare Sugar baby War bride Stritof, Sheri & Bob. "Left-Handed Marriage". about...
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Anne Rossignol (category Signare)
Anne Rossignol (1730–1810), was a famous signare businesswoman and slave trader. Born on Gorée, she emigrated to Saint-Domingue in 1775, where she became...
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Degredados Prazeros Lançados Lusotropicalismo Mestiço Órfãs do Rei Retornados Signares Newson, Linda A. (March 2012). "Africans and Luso-Africans in the Portuguese...
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Anna Colas Pépin (category Signare)
Pépin (1787–1872), was a Euro-African signare businesswoman. She belongs to the most famous examples of the signares of Gorée, but has often been confused...
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Africans and Arabs come out online, Reuters via Television New Zealand Signare Bi Sukugn Afroqueer Reporter Behind the Mask, LGBT Magazine in Africa Coalition...
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the colony, while engaged in the smuggling of gum arabic and gold with signares. In 1789 the people of St. Louis wrote a List of Grievances. The same year...
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prayer; spell, incantation". It is in origin a loan from Latin signum sīgnāre "to make a sign", viz. the Sign of the Cross used to confer a Christian...
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quadroon and of Métis descent; his mother was Charlotte de la Chapelle, a signare of French and African descent. He was the eldest of 10 children. His paternal...
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the presence and importance of the "mixed" population and signares in particular, with signare being a term used for African or part-African women who were...
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to be remembered in local stories today. Efunroye Tinubu Fenda Lawrence Signare Philip J. Havik, Silences and Soundbites: The Gendered Dynamics of Trade...
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Charles, an old man who had never married before. He is the cousin of a Signare. Isatou does not feel close to Charles. After their marriage, Isatou finds...
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This power dynamic is most clear in the establishment of the class of signare. These powerful women were able to wield their influence to increase their...
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Franco-African Creole, or Métis, merchant community characterized by the famous "signares", or bourgeois women entrepreneurs, grew up in Saint-Louis during the 17th...
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