Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Masters and their slaves. Neighborhoods and inequality -- Material and demographic changes -- Slave markets and networks -- Slaves and their masters. Family, work, and punishment -- Illness, recovery, and death -- Pathways to freedom : manumission and flight -- "Manumissionists," abolitionists, and emancipation. |
Summary |
Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. This book explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that slavery in Brazil was hierarchical: slaves' fleeting chances to form families, work jobs that would not kill or maim, avoid debilitating diseases, or find a (legal or illegal) pathway out of slavery were highly influenced by their demographic background and their owners' social position. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Brazil -- Santos (São Paulo) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Brazil -- Santos (São Paulo) |
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Slaveholders -- Brazil -- Santos (São Paulo) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Slaveholders. |
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Slavery -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Santos (São Paulo) -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Slavery. |
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Social status -- Brazil -- Santos (São Paulo) -- History -- 19th century.
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Social status. |
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Santos (São Paulo, Brazil) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Read, Ian (Ian William Olivo), 1976- Hierarchies of slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822-1888. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011040195 |
ISBN |
9780804778558 (electronic book) |
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0804778558 (electronic book) |
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9780804774147 (alkaline paper) |
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0804774145 |
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