Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

book: Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

Edited by: Stephan Conermann , Mariana Dias Paes , Roberto Hofmeister Pich and Paulo Cruz Terra

Volume 7 in the series Dependency and Slavery Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111026527

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African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the population of most African countries. Therefore, it is no surprise that Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography. In the last decades, a number of discussions have flourished on issues such as slave agency, slavery and law, slavery and capitalism, slave families, demography of slavery, transatlantic slave trade, abolition etc. In addition to these more consolidated fields, current research has focused on illegal enslavement, global perspectives on slavery and the slave trade, slavery and gender, the engagement of different social groups in the abolitionist movement or Atlantic connections. Taking into consideration these new trends of Brazilian slavery studies, this volume of collected articles gives leading scholars the chance to present their research to a broader academic community. Thus, the interested reader get to know in more detail these current trends in Brazilian historiography on slavery.

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S. Conermann, U.Bonn; M. Armond Dias Paes, MPI Europ. Legal Hist.; R. Hofmeister-Pich, U.Rio Grande do Sul; P. Cruz Terra, U.Fluminense

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Paulo Cruz Terra Open Access Download PDF	1
Slave Songs and Racism in the Musical World: Rio de Janeiro and the Black Atlantic, 1880–1910 Martha Abreu Open Access Download PDF	9
Iron, Gold, and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Ilamba and Minas Gerais Crislayne Alfagali Open Access Download PDF	31
Slavery, Motherhood, and the Free Womb Law Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado Open Access Download PDF	61
The Rights of Liberated Africans in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Beatriz G. Mamigonian Open Access Download PDF	71
Law and Slavery in the Brazilian Empire: A Research Agenda Mariana Dias Paes Open Access Download PDF	101
Slavery and the Power of Trade: Markets and Geopolitics in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Tâmis Parron Open Access Download PDF	125
The Catholic Church and Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Imperial Brazil: Pope Gregory XVI’s Bull In supremo apostolatus (1839) and Antônio Vicente Ferreira Viçoso’s Anti-Slavery Thought Roberto Hofmeister Pich Open Access Download PDF	151
Lynchings in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Slavery, the Press and the Courts Ricardo F. Pirola Open Access Download PDF	193
Laboring Women of African Descent in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Fabiane Popinigis Open Access Download PDF	211
Images of Slavery: The Other of the Other (the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Open Access Download PDF	233
Vagrancy, Labor, and Legislation in Brazilian Abolition: A Perspective from Global Labor History (1871–1890) Paulo Cruz Terra Open Access Download PDF	269
The Concept of Justice Shared in Portuguese America and the Disputes over its Application to Slavery Carlos A. de M. R. Zeron Open Access Download PDF	289
Contributors and Editors Open Access Download PDF	333
Index Open Access Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of history, slavery studies, global studies and racism, postcolonial studies and Brazilian history
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 339
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 40
Keywords: slavery: abolition; history of Brazil

eBook

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783111026527

Hardcover

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783111026107