Slavery in Brazil
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....
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Origins of the African slavery in Brazil
- The establishment of African slavery in Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Slavery and the economy in the eighteenth century
- Slavery and the economy in the nineteenth century
- The economics of slavery
- Life, death and migration in Afro-Brazilian slave society
- Slave resistance and rebellion
- Family, kinship and community
- Freedmen in a slave society
- Transition from slavery to freedom