Punishment in Paradise
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Punishment in Paradise

Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

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Punishment in Paradise

Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

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Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil's slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha—such as flogging and forced labor—stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil's international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Fernando de Noronha Island: Foil, Paradox, Paradise, or Inferno?
  4. 1. Getting to Know “Fernando”
  5. 2. “The Key to the Americas”?
  6. 3. Fernando de Noronha’s “Dark Twins”: Licit and Illicit Commerce
  7. 4. “Brothers of the Peak”: Prosopography of a Penal Community
  8. 5. The Jealous Institution and Brazilian Penology
  9. 6. “A Stench in the Nostrils of God”? The Material and Social Life of Exile
  10. 7. Crime, Conflict, Corruption, and Cooperation on an Atlantic Frontier
  11. 8. The Treatment and Categorization of Slave Convicts in a Penal Archipelago
  12. 9. Of Captivity and Incarceration: Human Rights Reformin Atlantic Perspective
  13. Conclusion: Punishment in Paradise Foiled Again
  14. Appendix: Statistical Tables
  15. Abbreviations
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index