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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009287968
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC Creative Common License - ND
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Subjects:
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Latin American History

Book description

The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, writings on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil. 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. These vibrant debates are explored in fifteen essays that place the Brazilian experience in dialogue with the afterlives of slavery worldwide. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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‘… an excellent book for both specialists and graduate students, certain to generate new questions about slavery, emancipation, and race in a key space of the Atlantic world.’

Isadora Moura Mota Source: Hispanic American Historical Review

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  • The Boundaries of Freedom
    pp i-i
  • Afro-Latin America - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • The Boundaries of Freedom - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-vii
  • Figures
    pp viii-ix
  • Tables
    pp x-x
  • Additional material
    pp xi-xi
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xii-xiv
  • Introduction - Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
    pp 1-32
  • Part I - Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
    pp 33-160
  • 4 - Motherhood Silenced
    pp 108-127
  • Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
  • Part II - Bounded Emancipations
    pp 161-238
  • 7 - Slavery, Freedom, and the Relational City in Abolition-Era Recife
    pp 183-212
  • Part III - Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities
    pp 239-338
  • Part IV - Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition
    pp 339-419
  • 13 - The Past Was Black
    pp 341-367
  • Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery
  • Bibliography
    pp 420-463

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