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Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
Stuart B. Schwartz
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Paperback. Series: Blacks in the New World. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
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Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to place their ethnographic approach in the context of enslavement as an oppressive social and economic system. Schwartz demonstrates the complexity of the...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the New World
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252065491
SKU
V9780252065491
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About Stuart B. Schwartz
Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World and the Bolton Prize-winning Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society.
Reviews for Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
"Reconsiders the critical issues of how the Brazilian slave system operated, how it coexisted with a parallel system of agriculture based on free labor, and by what means African and Afro-Brazilian slaves acted to shape their own lives. . . . A coherent and highly challenging overview of one of the most important questions about Brazil's past. Handsomely printed and...
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