Walter Fraga

Crossroads of Freedom

Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910

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Produktbeschreibung

Walter Fraga is Associate Professor in the Department of History of the Federal University of the Bahian Recôncavo in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil. Mary Ann Mahony is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.¿ ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360766
• ISBN-10: 0822360764
• Artikelnr.: 43673797

Autorenporträt

Walter Fraga

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Currency and Orthography  vii
Introduction to the English-Langauge Edition / Mary Ann Mahony  xi
Foreword to the Brazilian Edition / Robert W. Slenes  xxiii
Acknowledgments  xxvii
Introduction  1
1. Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery 
9
2. Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation  29
3. Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880–1888  56
4. May 13, 1888 and Its Immediate Aftermath  74
5. Heads Spinning with Freedom  103
6. After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 
139
7. Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 
161
8. Community and Family Life among Freed People  190
9. Other Post-emancipation Itineraries  211
Epilogue. In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom  236
Notes  245
Glossary  283
Bibliography  285
Index  301