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xxviii, 515 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
Originally published: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 1984. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-498) and index. |
| Contents |
"Men of Stone and of Iron": The African Slave Trade -- The Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave Trade in the Fifteenth Century, as Described by the Chronicler Gomes Eannes de Azurara -- The Enslavement Process in the Portuguese Dominions of King Philip III of Spain in the Early Seventeenth Century -- A Portuguese Doctor Describes the Suffering of Black Slaves in Africa and on the Atlantic Voyage (1793) -- A Young Black Man Tells of His Enslavement in Africa and Shipment to Brazil about the Middle of the Nineteenth Century -- An Ex-Slavetrader's Account of the Enslavement Process in Africa and the Illegal Traffic to Brazil (1848-1849) -- "It Was the Same as Pigs in a Sty": A Young African's Account of Life on a Slave Ship (1849) -- Slave Revolt at Sea and Brutal Reprisals (1845) -- A British Physician Describes the State of Africans upon Their Arrival in Brazil (1841-1843) -- A British Clergyman's Impressions of the Valongo Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro (1828) -- "A Hell for Blacks": Slavery in Rural Brazil -- An Italian Jesuit Advises Sugar Planters on the Treatment of Their Slaves (1711) -- A Royal Decree on the Feeding of Slaves and Their Days Off (1701) -- "I Doubt that the Moors Are So Cruel to Their Slaves": The Feeding of Slaves in Late Colonial Bahia -- The Masters and the Slaves: A Frenchman's Account of Society in Rural Pernambuco Early in the Nineteenth Century -- "The African Man Transformed into the American Beast": Slavery in Rural Pernambuco in the 1840s -- Practical Advice on the Management of Plantation Slaves (1847) -- Slave Life on a Plantation in the Province of Rio de Janeiro in the Late Nineteenth Century -- A Medical Report on Slaves on Five Coffee Plantations in the Province of Rio de Janeiro (1853) -- "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger": A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847) -- The Annual Work Routine on Plantations in Maranhao in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- A Brazilian Senator Comments on the High Mortality among Rural Slave Children in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- A Bahian Sugar Planter Registers His Slaves (1872) -- Slave Life in Cities and at the Mines -- Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro as Seen through Newspaper Advertisements (1821) -- A North American Describes Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro (1846) -- A Royal Navy Surgeon Discusses the Black Coffee Carriers of Rio de Janeiro (1848) -- The Sedan Chair and the Hammock: Urban Transportation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Slave Prostitutes in the Brazilian Capital (1871) -- Newspaper Advertisements for Black Wet Nurses (1821-1854) -- A French Doctor with Twelve Years of Medical Experience in Brazil Advises Mothers on Choosing a Black Wet Nurse (1843) -- Was the Black Wet Nurse a Transmitter of Disease? A Medical Debate in Rio de Janeiro (1846) -- The Black Wet Nurse: A Status Symbol (1863) -- Slave Workers at the Diamond Washings of Tejuco, Minas Gerais, in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Black Miners at a British-Owned Gold Mine in the 1860s -- "Common Graves": How City Slaves Were Buried -- "From Babylon to Jerusalem": Slavery and the Catholic Church -- Slavery and Church Doctrine: The Archbishop of Bahia Rules on Slave Evangelization and Aspects of Their Treatment (1707) -- "Children of God's Fire": A Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Finds Benefits in Slavery but Chastizes Masters for Their Brutality in a Sermon to the Black Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary -- A Jesuit Friar Writes on Slave Marriage and Immoral Acts Forced by Masters upon Their Slaves (1700) -- The Black Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary in Recife in the Eighteenth Century -- The Archbishop of Bahia Staunchly Supports Slavery and the Slave Trade (1794) -- Slaves as Prizes in a Lottery Benefiting the Santa Casa da Misericordia in Ouro Preto (1825) -- A Catholic Brotherhood Is Authorized to Buy and Sell Slaves (1842) -- A British Resident of Pernambuco Describes the Beneficial Effects of Catholicism on Slaves, Notably upon Those Belonging to Plantations of the Benedictine Order (about 1815) -- A Slave Revolt at a Carmelite Estate in Para (1865) -- "The Negroes Were Holding Their Saturnalia": A Popular Festival at the Church of Our Lady of Bomfim in Bahia (1860) -- Relations between the Races -- "The Fact Remains that They Are Black": Racial Attitudes in Eighteenth-Century Portugal and Brazil -- "Even a Considerable Tinge Will Pass for White": A British Resident of Pernambuco Analyzes Brazilian Racial and Social Categories Early in the Nineteenth Century -- Four Classes of Blacks: The Observations of a British Clergyman in Rio de Janeiro (1828) -- Official Acts Opposing or Outlawing Discrimination against Mulattoes and Free Blacks (1689 and 1849) -- The Influence of Black and Mulatto Household Slaves upon the Character of the Brazilian Upper Class -- Racial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Maranhao -- "Who Am I?" A Mulatto Ex-Slave Ridicules in Verse the Bigotry of His Racially Mixed Fellow Brazilians (1859) -- A Popular Verse Suggests Portuguese and Brazilian Attitudes toward Racial Mixing (1826) -- A Renowned Brazilian Mulatto Encounters Prejudice in New York but Is Rescued by Brazilian Friends: A Contrast in Race Relations (1873) -- "Peculiar Legislation": Slavery and the Law -- "This Dark Blotch on Our Social System": An Analysis of the Legal Status of Slaves and Freedmen in Brazilian Society (1866) -- Legal Restrictions on the Activities of Slaves and Free Non-Whites in Portugal (1521, 1545, 1559, and 1621) -- Restrictions on the Activities of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Brazil -- Special Legal Provisions Concerning Slaves Promulgated in the First Years of the Empire -- The Government of Bahia Orders Special Measures to Restrict and Control the Province's Slave Population (1822) -- The Province of Rio de Janeiro Restricts the Activities of Slaves, Free Africans, and Other Foreigners to Reduce the Threat of Slave Rebellion (1836) -- Local Ordinances Bearing on Slavery from Six Provincial Law Collections (1833-1866) -- Could a Slave Acquire His Freedom against His Master's Will by Offering Him His Value? Two Legal Opinions and the Negative Decision of the Council of State (1853-1854) -- A Master Abuses His Adolescent Slave Girl: A Court Case of 1883-1884 -- "And We Are the Best of Masters!": An Abolitionist Writes on the Legal System, Punishment, and the Extraordinary Power of the Master Class (1837) -- "Shamefully Torn before Thy Eyes": Corporal Punishment -- The Governor of Grao Para and Maranhao Informs the Portuguese King of Cruel Punishments Inflicted upon Indian Slaves (1752) -- "This Rustic Theology": A Catholic Priest Admonishes Slaveholders about the Cruel Punishment of Their Slaves (1758) -- Advice on Plantation Punishment from an Agricultural Handbook (1839) -- Lashes Inflicted upon Slaves at the Jail (Calabouco) in Rio de Janeiro (1826) -- "The Scene Was Deeply Afflicting": A Britisher Describes the Punishment of a Slave at the Rio Calabouco Early in the Nineteenth Century -- "This, Then, Is Not a Crime": The Trial of a Coffee Planter Accused of Brutal Punishment (1878) -- Changing Attitudes: The Minister of Justice Cautions Provincial Presidents on the Dangers of Excessive Punishment (1861) -- Government Report of the Deaths of Two Slaves Caused by Brutal Punishment (1887) -- The Perils of Being Black -- An Unconditional Grant of Freedom (1851) -- A Conditional Grant of Freedom (1827) -- The "Liberation" of Eight Legally Free Children (1878) -- A Slave Petitions for Protection from His Master (1876) -- Disposing of Stray Blacks, Beasts, and Cattle (Bens do Evento) (1728) -- The President of Rio Grande do Norte Regulates Disposal of Bens do Evento (1862) -- A Public Notice of Human Bens do Evento Lodged in a Jail in Parana (1857) -- An Auction of Human Bens do Evento in Rio de Janeiro (1867) -- A Lawyer Deplores the Legal Concept of Human Bens do Evento (1873) -- The Precariousness of Freedom: The Statement of a Black Man Named John Eden (1843) -- A Royal Decree Condemning "Free Africans" to Fourteen Years of Involuntary Servitude (1818) -- A Scottish Doctor Reports on the Mistreatment of "Free Africans" (1838) -- An Ex-Guardian of "Free Africans" Describes Their Treatment (1866) -- An "Emancipado" Is Granted His Final Certificate of Freedom (1864) -- The Services of "Ingenuos" (Freeborn Children of Slave Women) Are Placed in Public Auction (1882) -- "This Very Barbarous and Inhuman Traffic": A Bahian Planter-Politician Seeks to Abolish the Inter-Provincial Slave Trade (1854) -- A Britisher Describes the Inter-Provincial Slave Trade of the 1850s -- A Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Bahia Describes the Overland Slave Traffic (1880) -- Slaves Are Bought in Northern Brazil for Shipment to the South. |
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Slavery -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Slave trade -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Slaves -- Emancipation.
(OCoLC)fst01120540
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Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| ISBN |
0271013214 |
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9780271013213 |
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0271011211 |
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9780271011219 |
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