The abolition of slavery in Brazil the "liberation" of Africans through the emancipation of capital

Title:

Author:

Baronov, David.

ISBN:

9780313095030

Personal Author:

Baronov, David.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Series:

Contributions in Latin American studies, no. 17

Contributions in Latin American studies ; no. 17.

Contents:

Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Historical and Theoretical Origins of the Modern Industrial Working Class (1700-1817); 2. The Historical and Theoretical Origins of the Modern Industrial Working Class (1817-1870); 3. The Abolition of Servile Labor East and West; 4. The Legacy of Brazilian Slavery; 5. Brazilian Abolition: The Preparation; 6. Brazilian Abolition: The Process; Appendix A: Example of a 19th-Century Colono Contract; Bibliography; Index;

Abstract:

The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor relations were characterized by new forms of extra-market coercion that were explicitly linked to racial categories. Post-slavery Brazilian soc.

Subject Term:

Slavery -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century.

Labor supply -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century.

Social Science.

Political Science.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.

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