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Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
Walter Fraga
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Description for Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
Hardback. First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. Translator(s): Mahony, Mary Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following slavery's abolition in 1888. Through painstaking archival research, he illuminates the hopes, difficulties, opportunities, and setbacks of ex-slaves and plantation owners alike as they adjusted to their ... Read more
By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following slavery's abolition in 1888. Through painstaking archival research, he illuminates the hopes, difficulties, opportunities, and setbacks of ex-slaves and plantation owners alike as they adjusted to their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360766
SKU
V9780822360766
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About Walter Fraga
Walter Fraga is Associate Professor in the Department of History of the Federal University of the Bahian Recôncavo in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil. Mary Ann Mahony is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.
Reviews for Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
"Mary Ann Mahony has adeptly translated one of the best monographic histories of slaves for the vast sugar lands of Brazil. . . . This book extends Fraga’s 2004 dissertation and is a must read for specialists of slavery, emancipation, or Brazil, and, if contextualized, should be compelling to undergraduates and general readers as well. Highly recommended."
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