Crossroads of freedom : slaves and freed people in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910

Crossroads of freedom : slaves and freed people in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910 /

"By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom--which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the...

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Main Author: Fraga Filho, Walter, 1963- (Author)
Other Authors: Mahony, Mary Ann (Translator), Slenes, Robert W. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Enslaved persons > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History > 19th century.
Esclaves > Brésil > Bahia (État) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Affranchis > Brésil > Bahia (État) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Freed persons.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons.
Brazil > Bahia (State)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery
  • Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation
  • Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880-1888
  • May 13, 1888, and Its Immediate Aftermath
  • Heads Spinning with Freedom
  • After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations
  • Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations
  • Community and Family Life among Freed People
  • Other Post-emancipation Itineraries
  • Epilogue: In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom.

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