"Mary Ann Mahony has adeptly translated one of the best monographic histories of slaves for the vast sugar lands of Brazil. . . . This book extends Fraga’s 2004 dissertation and is a must read for specialists of slavery, emancipation, or Brazil, and, if contextualized, should be compelling to undergraduates and general readers as well. Highly recommended."
I. W. Read
Choice
“This rich collection of documents constitutes a major contribution to the literature on post-emancipation Brazil.”
Oscar de la Torre
EIAL
"[C]arefully researched ... Crossroads of Freedom provides unique insights into what happened next following the emancipation of the slaves from the sugar plantations of Recôncavo."
Eugene Carey
Latin American Review of Books
"Crossroads of Freedom is a pleasure to read and a tremendous contribution to the study of slavery and abolition."
Anadelia A. Romano
Journal of Latin American Studies
"A masterful translation. . . . Crossroads of Freedom provides valuable insight into not only slavery and freedom in the Recôncavo of Bahia and Brazil by extension, but also how these social forces informed Brazilian race relations more generally and the directives of the black liberation struggle in terms of battling persistent patterns of social inequality."
G. Reginald Daniel
Bulletin of Latin American Research
"Walter Fraga's book is undoubtedly one of the most important results of Brazilian social history that has been produced in the past 15 years."
Alain El Youssef
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies