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The Boundaries Of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, And The Making Of Modern Brazil

By Brodwyn Fischer , Keila Grinberg

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
1108831532, 9781108831536, 1009287974, 9781009287975, 1009287966, 9781009287968
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11442494 bytes)
Series
Afro-Latin America
Edition
1
Pages
508\508
Time added
2023-09-27 13:11:46
Sociology Of Race And Ethnicity; Area Studies; Lat

Description

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.

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