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Crossroads of freedom : slaves and freed people in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fraga Filho, Walter, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Mahony, Mary Ann (Translator), Slenes, Robert W. (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Slaves > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History > 19th century.
Freedmen > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Slaves and masters on sugar plantations in the last decades of slavery
  • Tension and conflict on a Recôncavo sugar plantation
  • Crossroads of slavery and freedom, 1880-1888
  • May 13, 1888, and its immediate aftermath
  • Heads spinning with freedom
  • After abolition: tension and conflict on Recôncavo sugar plantations
  • Trajectories of slaves and freed people on Recôncavo sugar plantations
  • Community and family life among freed people
  • Other post-emancipation itineraries
  • In the centuries to come: projections of slavery and freedom.