African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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
Drescher,Seymour (Editor) and McGlynn,Frank (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
"Outcome of an international conference ... held at the University of Pittsburgh ... 25-27 August 1988", 333 p., This study considers the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States and addressing such questions as: what was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? And did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in plantation societies?
Marques,João Pedro (Author), Drescher,Seymour (Author), and Emmer,Pieter C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New York: Berghahn Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
208 p., Includes Pieter C. Emmer's "Who abolished slavery in the Dutch Caribbean?"; David Geggus' "Slave resistance and emancipation: the case of Saint-Dominigue"; and Peter Blanchard's "The wars of independence, slave soldiers, and the issue of abolition in Spanish South America";
