The Boundaries of Freedom
Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
Part of Afro-Latin America
- Editors:
- Brodwyn Fischer, University of Chicago
- Keila Grinberg, University of Pittsburgh
- Date Published: March 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108831536
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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. These vibrant debates are explored in fifteen essays that place the Brazilian experience in dialogue with the afterlives of slavery worldwide.
Read more- Brings the latest Brazilian scholarship into debates about the nature of slavery and freedom in the Afro-Atlantic
- Introduces English-language readers, for the first time in one volume, to the arguments that have shaped Brazilian scholarship on slavery and abolition in the last 20 years
- Sheds light on slavery's profound impact on the social, political, and institutional history of modern Brazil
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'This pathbreaking volume reveals and refines the signature methods that have placed the 'Brazilian school' at the forefront of Latin American historiographies of slavery, abolition, and post-emancipation societies. Moving nimbly between broad processes and lived experience, contributors offer new perspectives, from the South Atlantic, on the urgent question of how dynamics rooted in slavery persist so powerfully after slavery's end.' Paulina L. Alberto, author of Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
See more reviews'The Boundaries of Freedom makes available in English the best scholarship being done on slavery, emancipation, and their legacy in Brazil. The themes of illegal enslavement, the precariousness of freedom, and the afterlives of slavery are Atlantic in scope, thus inviting dialogue and comparison with studies on slavery and race in the US and the Caribbean.' Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University
'A remarkable volume on the end of Brazilian slavery by some of the best scholars who write on that subject. They examine the complexities and social costs of slavery and abolition not only on politics, law, and economy, but also on the culture and the intimate lived experience of all touched by slavery and its heritage of racism. Required reading for anyone interested in slavery's legacy in the Atlantic world.' Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University
'Throughout the nineteenth century, Brazil was simultaneously home to an economy still dependent on enslaved labor and the transatlantic slave trade, and a rapidly growing free population of African descent. These extraordinary circumstances are the basis for the complex and fascinating histories of struggle over questions of liberty, property, and identity that fill the pages of this exciting collection of essays.' Barbara Weinstein, New York University
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- Date Published: March 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108831536
- length: 329 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.885kg
- availability: Available
Table of 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
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