The Boundaries of Freedom (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108831536)

The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, key scholars writing on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil, the largest and most enduring slave society in the Americas. Nearly five million enslaved Africans were forced to Brazil's shores over four and a half centuries, making slavery integral to every aspect of its colonial and national history, stretching beyond temporal and geographical boundaries. This book introduces English-language readers to a paradigm-shifting renaissance in Brazilian scholarship that has taken place in the past several decades, upending longstanding assumptions on slavery's relation to law, property, sexuality and family; reconceiving understandings of slave economies; and engaging with issues of agency, autonomy, and freedom. These vibrant debates are explored in fifteen essays that place the Brazilian experience in dialogue with the afterlives of slavery worldwide.

Author: Brodwyn Fischer
ISBN-10: 1108831532
ISBN-13: 9781108831536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2022
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d