Crossroads of Freedom
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Crossroads of Freedom

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

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Crossroads of Freedom

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

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By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo 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 Recôncavo'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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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9780822374558
Topic
History
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. A Note on Currency and Orthography
  4. Introduction to the English-Language Edition
  5. Foreword to the Brazilian Edition
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. One. Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery
  9. Two. Tension and Conflict on a RecĂ´ncavo Sugar Plantation
  10. Three. Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880–1888
  11. Four. May 13, 1888, and Its Immediate Aftermath
  12. Five. Heads Spinning with Freedom
  13. Six. After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on RecĂ´ncavo Sugar Plantations
  14. Seven. Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on RecĂ´ncavo Sugar Plantations
  15. Eight. Community and Family Life among Freed People
  16. Nine. Other Post-emancipation Itineraries
  17. Epilogue. In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom
  18. Notes
  19. Glossary
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index