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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.
The Chattel Principle
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and fr...
Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the regions transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for inde...
Chapada, Lavras e Diamantes
Este livro traça a trajetória histórica da Chapada Diamantina desde a época de seus primeiros habitantes, os índios, até os dias atuais. Busca-se construir um amplo panorama da região, reunindo e integrando pedaços de sua saga, dispersos em inúmeras fontes. Apresenta uma visão geral de sua evolução, começando pelo processo de ocupação e colonização, passando pela extração de diamantes, as guerras dos coronéis e a decadência, chegando aos dias de hoje, quando são exploradas alternativas para a recuperação de algum quinhão da riqueza perdida. A abordagem adotada reúne elementos da formação econômica, da estrutura social, do arcabouço político e de traços cultura...
After Palmares
In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast Brazil, Palmares stood for a century, withstanding sustained attacks from two European powers. In 1695, colonial forces assassinated its most famous leader, Zumbi. Hertzman examines the remarkable ways that Palmares and its inhabitants lived on after Zumbi’s death, creating vivid portraits of those whose lives and voices scholars have often assumed are inaccessible. With an innovative approach to African languages, and paying close attention to place as well as African and diasporic spiritual beliefs, Hertzman reshapes our understanding of Palmares and Zumbi and advances a new framework for studying fugitive slave communities and marronage in the African diaspora.
As forças do jarê, religião de matriz africana da Chapada Diamantina
Uma etnografia que alia rigor e vigor na análise de uma religião de matriz africana na Chapada Diamantina. Segundo Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, trata-se de “uma contribuição preciosa à antropologia da religião, em particular uma abordagem inovadora do clássico problema da crença”. Para Márcio Goldman, “este livro representa (...) uma contribuição inovadora e brilhante ao campo dos chamados estudos afro-brasileiros.”
Slavery in Brazil
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.
Os Grandes Diamantes Dos Coronéis !
O garimpo foi atividade típica local, nas Lavras Diamantinas. Desde os primeiros tempos de mineração, a região foi salpicada com ranchos, bateias e outros instrumentos para busca de diamantes e carbonatos. Na base das rochas, encontram-se planícies em redor das águas. As jazidas de diamantes estão nessa camada, bem como nos leitos de rios, riachos e nos canais naturais. Ali, homens trabalhavam ao som do disco giratório (bateia) e o bater das águas na roda que impulsionava a indústria que fazia brilhar as gemas que ornaram as damas de então e de hoje.
