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The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil - The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital (Hardcover, New)
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The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil - The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital (Hardcover, New)
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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 society is a classic example of this pattern. Working
within the context of the origin of the wage labor category in
classical political economy, Baronov begins by questioning the
central role of wage-labor within capitalist production through an
examination of key works by Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, as well as
the historical conditions informing their analyses. The study then
turns to the specific case of Brazil between 1850-1888, comparing
the abolition of slavery in three Brazilian regions: the northeast
sugar region, the Paraiba Valley, and Western Sao Paulo. Through
this analysis, Baronov provides a critique of the dominant
interpretation of abolition (as a transition from slave labor to
wage labor) and suggests an alternative interpretation that places
a greater emphasis on the role of non-wage labor forms and
extra-market factors in the shaping of the post-slavery social
order.
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