The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil

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The Boundaries of Freedom

Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil

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Roth, Cassia and Costa, Robson Pedrosa 2023. “Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children”: Slavery, Motherhood, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871. Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 103, Issue. 1, p. 65.

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Edited by Brodwyn Fischer, University of Chicago, Keila Grinberg, University of Pittsburgh

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009287968
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917537
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, History, Latin American History
Series:: Afro-Latin America

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The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, writings on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil. 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

‘… an excellent book for both specialists and graduate students, certain to generate new questions about slavery, emancipation, and race in a key space of the Atlantic world.’

Isadora Moura Mota Source: Hispanic American Historical Review

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