Fraga Walter Fraga

Crossroads of Freedom (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Reconcavo 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 Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History-Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following slavery's abolition in 1888. Through painstaking archival research, he illuminates the hopes, difficulties, opportunities, and setbacks of ex-slaves and plantation owners alike as they adjusted to their postabolition environment. Breaking new ground in Brazilian historiography, Fraga does not see an abrupt shift with slavery's abolition; rather, he describes a period of continuous change in which the strategies, customs, and identities that slaves built under slavery allowed them to navigate their newfound freedom. Fraga's analysis of how Reconcavo's residents came to define freedom and slavery more accurately describes this seminal period in Brazilian history, while clarifying how slavery and freedom are understood in the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374558
• Artikelnr.: 54667227

Autorenporträt

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.   

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