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Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
Contributor(s): Schwartz, Stuart B. (Author)
ISBN: 0252065492     ISBN-13: 9780252065491
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
OUR PRICE:   $24.75  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 1995
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Annotation: 'Graduate students will find it indispensable, as will historians of slavery in other countries who wish to deepen their knowledge of Brazil.' -George Reid Andrews, American Historical Review
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: 306.362
Series: Blacks in the New World
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.01" W x 8.98" (0.66 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to place their ethnographic approach in the context of enslavement as an oppressive social and economic system. Schwartz demonstrates the complexity of the system by reconsidering work, resistance, kinship, and relations between enslaved persons and peasants. As he shows, enslaved people played a role in shaping not only their lives but Brazil's institutionalized system of slavery by using their own actions and attitudes to place limits on slaveholders.

A bold analysis of changing ideas in the field, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels provides insights on how the shifting power relationship between enslaved people and slaveholders reshaped the contours of Brazilian society.