Policing freedom : illegal enslavement, labor, and citizenship in nineteenth-century Brazil / Martine Jean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jean, Martine (Historian), author.

Series:

Afro-Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--Brazil--History--19th century.

Punishment.

Slavery--Brazil--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Convict labor--Brazil--History--19th century.

Convict labor.

Prisons--Brazil--History--19th century.

Prisons.

Citizenship--Brazil--History--19th century.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 347 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge Universty Press, 2023.

Summary:

Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population during the foundational period of Brazilian state formation and postcolonial nation building. Placing this penitentiary within the global debates about the disciplinary benefits of confinement and the evolution of free labor ideology, Martine Jean illustrates how Brazil's political elites envisioned the penitentiary as a way to discipline the free working class. While participating in the debates about the inhumanity of the slave trade, philanthropists and lawmakers, both conservative and liberal, articulated a nation-building discourse that focused on reforming Brazil's vagrants into workers in anticipation of slavery's eventual demise, laying the racialized foundations for policing and incarceration in the post-emancipation period.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Aug 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009289146 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.