signare
Sign in to savethumb|Negresse of quality from the Island of Saint Louis in Senegal, accompanied by her slave, Illustration from Costumes civils de tous les peuples connus, Paris, 1788, by . thumb|300px|A Signares ball, with European men.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Social and economic role
- Social mobility
- Marital practices
- List of notable signares
- See also
- Sources
- References
- External links
thumb|Negresse of quality from the Island of Saint Louis in Senegal, accompanied by her slave, Illustration from Costumes civils de tous les peuples connus, Paris, 1788, by . thumb|300px|A Signares ball, with European men.
Signares were black and mulatto Senegalese women who had an influence via their marriage with European men and their patrimony. These women of color managed to gain some individual assets, status, and power in the hierarchies of the Atlantic slave trade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “signare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.