African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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173 p, Contents: Exploring the Meaning of Freedom: Postemancipation Societies in Comparative Perspective / REBECCA J. SCOTT -- Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective / SEYMOUR DRESCHER -- Beyond Masters and Slaves: Subsistence Agriculture as Survival Strategy in Brazil during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / HEBE MARIA MATTOS DE CASTRO -- Black and White Workers: Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1928 / GEORGE REID ANDREWS -- "Mud-Hut Jerusalem": Canudos Revisited / ROBERT M. LEVINE.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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344 p, Contents: PART ONE: 1850-1879 -- Introduction: The Foundations of Brazilian Slavery -- The Abolition of the African Slave Trade and the Onset of Decline -- The Crisis of Labor -- The Inter-Provincial Slave Trade -- The Beginnings of Emancipationism -- The Emancipation of the Newborn -- The Rio Branco Law -- PART TWO: 1879-1888 -- The Provinces on the Eve of Abolitionism -- The Abolitionist Movement: First Phase -- Action and Reaction -- The Movement in Ceara -- The Abolitionist Movement: Second Phase -- Shock Waves of Ceara: Amazonas and Rio Grande Do Sul -- The Liberation of the Elderly -- Prelude to Collapse -- The Conversion of Sao Paulo -- Abolition
