Herbert S. Klein

Slavery in Brazil (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. Although Brazilians have incorporated many of the North American debates about slavery, they have also developed a new set of questions about slave holding: the nature of marriage, family, religion, and culture among the slaves and free colored; the process of manumission; and the rise of the free colored class during slavery. It is the aim of this book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511700507
• Artikelnr.: 37842219

Autorenporträt

Herbert S. Klein is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, Professor of History, and senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University, as well as Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Klein is the author of some 20 books and 155 articles in several languages on Latin America and on comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are four comparative studies of slavery, the most recent of which are African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-author), The Atlantic Slave Trade, and Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750¿1850 (co-author). He has also published on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680¿1809 and A Population History of the United States and is co-author of Brazil Since 1980 and Mexico Since 1980.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Political Economy of Slave Labor: 1. Origins of African slavery in Brazil
2. The establishment of African slavery in Brazil in the 16th & 17th century
3. Slavery and the economy in the 18th century
4. Slavery and the economy in the 19th century
5. The economics of slavery
Part II. Brazilian Slave Society: 6. Life, death, and migration in Afro-Brazilian slave society
7. Slave resistance and rebellion
8. Family, kinship and community
9. Freedmen in a slave society
Part III. End of Slavery: 10. Transition from slavery to freedom.