Fraga Crossroads of Freedom

Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraga, Walter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mahony, Mary Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Currency and Orthography vii

Introduction to the English-Langauge Edition / Mary Ann Mahony xi

Foreword to the Brazilian Edition / Robert W. Slenes xxiii

Acknowledgments xxvii

Introduction 1

1. Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery 9

2. Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation 29

3. Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880–1888 56

4. May 13, 1888 and Its Immediate Aftermath 74

5. Heads Spinning with Freedom 103

6. After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 139

7. Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 161

8. Community and Family Life among Freed People 190

9. Other Post-emancipation Itineraries 211

Epilogue. In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom 236

Notes 245

Glossary 283

Bibliography 285

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Fraga is Associate Professor in the Department of History of the Federal University of the Bahian Recôncavo in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil.
Mary Ann Mahony is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.