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The last abolition : the Brazilian antislavery movement, 1868-1888 / Angela Alonso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alonso, Angela, author.
- Series:
- Afro-Latin America.
- Afro-Latin America
- Standardized Title:
- Flores, votos e balas. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Brazil.
- Antislavery movements.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Brazil--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slavery--Brazil--History.
- Slavery.
- Brazil--Politics and government--1822-1889.
- Brazil.
- Brazil--History--1822-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 447 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Seamlessly entwining archival research and sociological debates, The Last Abolition is a lively and engaging historical narrative that uncovers the broad history of Brazilian anti-slavery activists and the trajectory of their work, from earnest beginnings to eventual abolition. In detailing their principles, alliances and conflicts, Angela Alonso offers a new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery network which, combined, forged a national movement to challenge the entrenched pro-slavery status quo. While placing Brazil within the abolitionist political mobilization of the nineteenth century, the book explores the relationships between Brazilian and foreign abolitionists, demonstrating how ideas and strategies transcended borders. Available for the first time in an English language edition, with a new introduction, this award-winning volume is a major contribution to the scholarship on abolition and abolitionists.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Elite Abolitionism
- Pro-Slavery Rhetoric
- The Moral Repertoire of Abolitionism
- The Theatricalization of Politics
- Expansion
- Results-Based Abolitionism
- Votes: A Movement/Government Alliance
- Bullets: Movement and Countermovement
- The March to Victory
- Future of the Preterite
- Abolitionism as a Social Movement.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2021).
- Originally published in Portuguese as Flores, votos e balas: o movimento abolicionista brasileiro, 1868- 1888 by Companhia das Letras and Angela Alonso 2015.
- ISBN:
- 1-108-36923-5
- 1-108-37301-1
- 1-108-36739-9
- OCLC:
- 1285171849
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