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Format: 1 online resource (VI, 339 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 3-11-102652-3

Series Statement: Dependency and Slavery Studies , 7

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Slave Songs and Racism in the Musical World: Rio de Janeiro and the Black Atlantic, 1880–1910 -- , Iron, Gold, and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Ilamba and Minas Gerais -- , Slavery, Motherhood, and the Free Womb Law -- , The Rights of Liberated Africans in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- , Law and Slavery in the Brazilian Empire: A Research Agenda -- , Slavery and the Power of Trade: Markets and Geopolitics in the Nineteenth-Century Americas -- , 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 -- , Lynchings in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Slavery, the Press and the Courts -- , Laboring Women of African Descent in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- , Images of Slavery: The Other of the Other (the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- , Vagrancy, Labor, and Legislation in Brazilian Abolition: A Perspective from Global Labor History (1871–1890) -- , The Concept of Justice Shared in Portuguese America and the Disputes over its Application to Slavery -- , Contributors and Editors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783111026107

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783111026527