To be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888

To be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888
Author: Kátia M. de Queirós Mattoso
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1986
Genre: Enslaved persons
ISBN: 9780813511542

This book was published originally in French in 1979 and in Portuguese in 1982. Written without scholarly footnotes for a general readership, it is a deceptively simple book direct in its presentation, lacking a specialized jargon, and organized in an imaginative and interesting way. But it also is a volume that reflects some of the most recent and innovative research on the question of slavery. Putting aside the somewhat arid debate over the feudal or capitalist nature of the "slave mode of production" and the political aspects of the movement for abolition, To Be a Slave in Brazil presents an overview of Brazilian slavery which reflects the trend toward study of the slave community, religion, the family, and other features of the internal aspects of slavery. - Foreword.

Slavery in Brazil

Slavery in Brazil
Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521193982

This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. This book aims to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.

Slavery in the Americas

Slavery in the Americas
Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1967
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Children of God's Fire

Children of God's Fire
Author: Robert Edgar Conrad
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 545
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271044950

This pro-slavery propaganda, though perhaps intended mainly for foreigners, influenced the thinking of may Brazilians, resulting in one memorable contradiction which is reproduced in this book.

Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Author: A.J.R. Russell-Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040234283

Professor Russell-Wood’s detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion. This collection combines work on particular persons and groupings with survey articles on the role of the port and the frontier in colonial Brazil and on its historiography. The author describes the administration and structure of government, and the realities of royal power, with examples drawn from the port cities and the mining townships of the interior, then moves on to examine the interplay of class, religion and race with reference to brotherhoods of persons of African descent and the racially exclusive Third Orders. One group who overcame legal, physical and social constraints were women who, whether of European or African descent, contributed decisively to the economy and society of Brazil. To conclude, there are accounts of three individuals, each of whose experiences illustrate facets of the judicial system, governance and education in Portugal’s richest colony. Les études détaillées du professeur Russell-Wood sur l’histoire sociale brésilienne durant la période coloniale ont longtemps été reconnues comme un modèle de contribution à histoire des classes, des races, des genres et des religions. Cette collection allie des travaux au sujet d’individus spécifiques et de groupements à des résumés d’enquête sur la rôle du port et de la frontière dans le Brésil colonial et dans son historiographie. L’auteur décrit l’administration et la structure gouvernementale, ainsi que les réalités du pouvoir royal, s’appuyant d’exemples tirés des cités portuaires et des communes minières de l’intérieur. Il passe ensuite à l’examen de l’interaction des classes, des religions et des races en faisant référence aux liens de fraternité qui unissaient les personnes de descendance africaine, ainsi qu’aux Troisièmes Ordres qui pratiq

A Brief History of Brazil

A Brief History of Brazil
Author: Teresa A. Meade
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438108214

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Paying the Price of Freedom

Paying the Price of Freedom
Author: Christine Hünefeldt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520082922

"I know of no other work on Latin American slavery during the decades before emancipation that captures the slaves' relentless pursuit of freedom as poignantly as does this one."--Francisco A. Scarano, University of Wisconsin, Madison "A splendid and important contribution to a growing body of literature on nineteenth-century slavery and abolition."--Frederick P. Bowser, Stanford University "I know of no other work on Latin American slavery during the decades before emancipation that captures the slaves' relentless pursuit of freedom as poignantly as does this one."--Francisco A. Scarano, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Brazil's Dance with the Devil

Brazil's Dance with the Devil
Author: Dave Zirin
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1608464334

One of the Boston Globe’s Best Sports Books of the Year: “Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny” (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man). The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world’s most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary Brazilians were holding the country’s biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Zirin examines Brazilians’ objections to the corruption of the games they love; the toll such events take on impoverished citizens; and how taking to the streets opened up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports. “Millions will enjoy the World Cup and Olympics, but Zirin justly reminds readers of the real human costs beyond the spectacle.” —Kirkus Reviews