ISBN:
9781108934602
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (506 pages)
Serie:
Afro-Latin America Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3620981
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This carefully curated collection of essays opens the vibrant field of Brazilian slavery and abolition studies to English-language readers.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- Part I Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil's Slave Empire -- 1 The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- 2 "Hellish Nurseries": Slave Smuggling, Child Trafficking, and Local Complicity in Nineteenth-Century Pernambuco -- 3 Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone -- 4 Motherhood Silenced: Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- 5 The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840-1865 -- Part II Bounded Emancipations -- 6 Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave -- 7 Slavery, Freedom, and the Relational City in Abolition-Era Recife -- 8 Migrações ao sul: Memories of Land and Work in Brazil's Slaveholding Southeast -- Outline placeholder -- Part III Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities -- 9 Breaking the Silence: Racial Subjectivities, Abolitionism, and Public Life in Mid-1870s Recife -- 10 The Life and Times of a Free Black Man in Brazil's Era of Abolition: Teodoro Sampaio, 1855-1937 -- 11 Political Dissonance in the Name of Freedom: Brazil's Black Organizations in the Age of Abolition -- 12 "The East River Reminds Me of the Paraná": Racism, Subjectivity, and Transnational Political Action in the Life of André Rebouças -- Part IV Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition -- 13 The Past Was Black: Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery.
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