The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
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The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital

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The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital

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The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor relations were characterized by new forms of extra-market coercion that were explicitly linked to racial categories. Post-slavery Brazilian society is a classic example of this pattern. Working within the context of the origin of the wage labor category in classical political economy, Baronov begins by questioning the central role of wage-labor within capitalist production through an examination of key works by Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, as well as the historical conditions informing their analyses. The study then turns to the specific case of Brazil between 1850-1888, comparing the abolition of slavery in three Brazilian regions: the northeast sugar region, the Paraiba Valley, and Western Sao Paulo. Through this analysis, Baronov provides a critique of the dominant interpretation of abolition (as a transition from slave labor to wage labor) and suggests an alternative interpretation that places a greater emphasis on the role of non-wage labor forms and extra-market factors in the shaping of the post-slavery social order.

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Publisher
Praeger
Year
2000
ISBN
9780313095030
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Tables
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. The Historical and Theoretical Origins of the Modern Industrial Working Class (1700–1817)
  6. 2. The Historical and Theoretical Origins of the Modern Industrial Working Class (1817–1870)
  7. 3. The Abolition of Servile Labor East and West
  8. 4. The Legacy of Brazilian Slavery
  9. 5. Brazilian Abolition: The Preparation
  10. 6. Brazilian Abolition: The Process
  11. Appendix A: Example of a 19th-Century Colono Contract
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index