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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
Dale Torston Graden
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Paperback. Divided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 324 pages, 13 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Bahia is a province of Brazil on its northeastern coast and is the size of the country of France. From the sixteenth century through the 1850s, at least 1.2 million African slaves entered Brazil through Bahia, many of those through the major port city of Salvador. Dale Graden's study is divided into four parts. He first examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia by 1851. International political pressures combined with internal slave resistance forced an abrupt decline in slave importations into the province. Second, he traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law ... Read more
Bahia is a province of Brazil on its northeastern coast and is the size of the country of France. From the sixteenth century through the 1850s, at least 1.2 million African slaves entered Brazil through Bahia, many of those through the major port city of Salvador. Dale Graden's study is divided into four parts. He first examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia by 1851. International political pressures combined with internal slave resistance forced an abrupt decline in slave importations into the province. Second, he traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Series
Dialogos
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826340511
SKU
V9780826340511
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About Dale Torston Graden
Dale Torston Graden is associate professor of history at the University of Idaho, Moscow.
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