The boundaries of freedom : slavery, abolition, and the making of modern Brazil / edited by Brodwyn Fischer, Keila Grinberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Brodwyn M., editor.

Grinberg, Keila, editor.

Series:

Afro-Latin America.

Afro-Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Brazil--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 491 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Introduction: Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century Brazil Brodwyn Fischer and Keila Grinberg; Part I. Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil's Slave Empire: 1. The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Keila Grinberg and Beatriz Mamigonian; 2. 'Hellish Nurseries:' Slave Smuggling, Child Trafficking, and Local Complicity in Nineteenth Century Pernambuco Marcus Carvalho; 3. Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth Century Brazilian Coffee Zone Ricardo Salles and Mariana Muaze; 4. Motherhood Silenced: Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth Century Brazil Mariana Muaze; 5. The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840-1865 Keila Grinberg; Part II. Bounded Emancipations: 6. Body, Gender and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman and Ovídia, a Slave Maria Helena Pereira Machado; 7. Slavery, Freedom and the Relational City in Abolition-era Recife Brodwyn Fischer; 8. Migrações ao sul: Memories of Land and Work in Brazil's Slaveholding Southeast Robson Luis Machado Martins and Flávio Gomes; Part III. Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities: 9. Breaking the Silence: Racial Subjectivities, Abolitionism, and Public Life in mid-1870s Recife Celso Castilho and Rafaella Valença de Andrade Galvão; 10. The Life and Times of a Free Black Man in Brazil's Era of Abolition: Teodoro Sampaio, 1855-1937 Wlamyra Albuquerque; 11. Political Dissonance in the Name of Freedom: Brazil's Black Organizations in the Age of Abolition Ana Flavia Magalhães Pinto; 12. The East River Reminds Me of the Paraná: Racism, Subjectivity and Transnational Political Action in the Life of André Rebouças Hebe Mattos; Part IV. Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition: 13. The Past was Black: Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery Daryle Williams; 14. From Crias de Casa to Filhos de Criação: Raising Illegitimate Children in the 'Big House' in Post-Abolition Brazil Sueann Caulfield; 15. Slave Songs and Racism in the post-Abolition Americas: Eduardo das Neves and Bert Williams in Comparative Perspective Martha Abreu; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

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).

ISBN:

1-009-28796-6

Access Restriction:

Open access. Unrestricted online access