Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

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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