Crossroads of freedom : slaves and freed people in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910 / Walter Fraga ; translated and with an introduction by Mary Ann Mahony ; foreword to the Brazilian edition by Robert W. Slenes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraga Filho, Walter, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Mahony, Mary Ann, translator, writer of introduction.

Slenes, Robert W., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History--19th century.

Freed persons--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History--19th century.

Slavery--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888.

Contents:

Slaves and masters on sugar plantations in the last decades of slavery

Tension and conflict on a Recôncavo sugar plantation

Crossroads of slavery and freedom, 1880-1888

May 13, 1888, and its immediate aftermath

Heads spinning with freedom

After abolition: tension and conflict on Recôncavo sugar plantations

Trajectories of slaves and freed people on Recôncavo sugar plantations

Community and family life among freed people

Other post-emancipation itineraries

In the centuries to come: projections of slavery and freedom.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822374558

0822374552

OCLC:

1139368294