The Boundaries of Freedom (Afro-Latin America)

Introduction - Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

PART I - Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
1 - The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
2 - “Hellish Nurseries”: Slave Smuggling, Child Trafficking, and Local Complicity in Nineteenth-Century Pernambuco
3 - Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone
4 - Motherhood Silenced: Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
5 - The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865

PART II - Bounded Emancipations
6 - Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave
7 - Slavery, Freedom, and the Relational City in Abolition-Era Recife
8 - Migrações ao sul : Memories of Land and Work in Brazil’s Slaveholding Southeast

PART III - Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities
9 - Breaking the Silence: Racial Subjectivities, Abolitionism, and Public Life in Mid-1870s Recife
10 - The Life and Times of a Free Black Man in Brazil’s Era of Abolition - Teodoro Sampaio, 1855–1937
11 - Political Dissonance in the Name of Freedom: Brazil’s Black Organizations in the Age of Abolition
12 - “The East River Reminds Me of the Paraná” : Racism, Subjectivity, and Transnational Political Action in the Life of André Rebouças


PART IV - Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition
13 - The Past Was Black: Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery
14 - From Crias da Casa to Filhos de Criação: Raising Illegitimate Children in the “Big House” in Post-Abolition Brazil
15 - Slave Songs and Racism in the Post-Abolition Americas: Eduardo das Neves and Bert Williams in Comparative Perspective

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