Slavery in Brazil

by Herbert S. Klein , Francisco Vidal Luna

• ISBN13: 9780521193986
• ISBN10: 0521193982
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. Although Brazilians have incorporated many of the North American debates about slavery, they have also developed a new set of questions about slave holding: the nature of marriage, family, religion, and culture among the slaves and free colored; the process of manumission; and the rise of the free colored class during slavery. It is the aim of this book to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.

Table of Contents

The Political Economy of Slave Labor

Origins of African slavery in Brazil

The establishment of African slavery in Brazil in the 16th & 17th century

Slavery and the economy in the 18th century

Slavery and the economy in the 19th century

The economics of slavery

Brazilian Slave Society

Life, death, and migration in Afro-Brazilian slave society

Slave resistance and rebellion

Family, kinship and community

Freedmen in a slave society

End of Slavery

Transition from slavery to freedom

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