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2. Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society: The Population of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1776-1821
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bergad,Laird W. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(4) : 895-38
- Notes:
- Analyzes the socioeconomic history of the slave system of Minas Gerais in Brazil from 1776 to 1821. Transition from slave-based economy to agricultural and cattle economy; Economic dependence on slave labor; Slave importation; Contributing factors to decline of slave practices.
3. More than chattel: Black women and slavery in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Hine,Darlene Clark (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 341 p, Includes Mary Karasch's "Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century," Hilary Beckles' "Black female slaves and white households in Barbados," Robert W. Slenes' "Black homes, white homilies: perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil," Barbara Bush's "Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies," David Barry Gaspar's "From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763," Bernard Moitt's "Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean,"David P. Geggus' "Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue," and Susan M. Socolow's "Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Francais."
4. O quilombo do Rio das Rãs: histórias, tradições, lutas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carvalho,José Jorge de (Editor), Doria,Siglia Zambrotti (Editor), and Oliveira,Adolfo Neves, Jr. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Salvador: Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais : Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Papers presented at the I Seminário das Comunidades Negras do Sertão da Bahia, held at the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais in December 1993., 270 p., Contents: A experiência histórica nas Américas e no Brasil / José Jorge de Carvalho -- A comunidade rural negra do Rio das Rãs ; O processo de ocupação da região do Rio das Rãs ; A experiência comunitæria ; Símbolos e projeções míticas da história ; A comunidade negra do Rio das Rãs : remanescentes dos quilombos ; Estado atual da luta jurídica / Siglia Zambrotti Doria e José Jorge de Carvalho -- Reflexão antropológica e prática pericial / Adolfo Neves de Oliveira Jr; Seminário das Comunidades Negras do Sertão da Bahia