ISBN:
9781009287968
,
9781108831536
,
9781009287975
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 491 pages)
,
illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Afro-Latin America
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3620981
Keywords:
Slavery History
Abstract:
'The Boundaries of Freedom' brings together, for the first time in English, key scholars writing on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil, the largest and most enduring slave society in the Americas. Nearly five million enslaved Africans were forced to Brazil's shores over four and a half centuries, making slavery integral to every aspect of its colonial and national history, stretching beyond temporal and geographical boundaries. This book introduces English-language readers to a paradigm-shifting renaissance in Brazilian scholarship that has taken place in the past several decades, upending longstanding assumptions on slavery's relation to law, property, sexuality and family; reconceiving understandings of slave economies; and engaging with issues of agency, autonomy, and freedom.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 23, 2023)
DOI:
10.1017/9781108917537
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