Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888

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Indiana University Press, 2003 M04 10 - 255 páginas

Slavery and Identity narrates a peculiar sort of history of the "peculiar institution." Not about slavery per se, it looks at urban slavery in an Atlantic port city from the vantage point of enslaved Africans and their descendants, examining their self-perceptions and self-identities in a variety of situations. The book offers a new window on slave life in 19th-century Salvador, Brazil, and illustrates the difficulty of generalizing about New World slave societies. In Salvador, slaves owned slaves and even participated in the transatlantic slave trade. Africans who were removed from Africa as slaves sometimes managed to purchase their freedom, and a few entered the commerce of trade in their fellow humans. Nishida explains that though African-born people found themselves at the bottom of the social ladder, they somehow were never entirely excluded from society or even from power at a certain level.

 

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A Capital of Africa in Brazil
11
TO BE AFRICANBORN AND ENSLAVED CIRCA 18081831
27
TO BE AFRICANBORN AND FREED CIRCA 18081880
71
TO BE BRAZILIANBORN CIRCA 18081888
121
Conclusion
157
Bibliography
227
Index
251
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Mieko Nishida is Assistant Professor of History at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. She held a Predoctoral Research Fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute of the University of Virginia and a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin.

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