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Punishment in Paradise - Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony (Paperback)
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Punishment in Paradise - Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony (Paperback)
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Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de
Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern
coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In
Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case
study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and
cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color,
civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil's slave
population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era
disciplinary practices at Noronha-such as flogging and forced
labor-stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil's
international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves,
convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor
extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one
of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In
detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an
international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil
firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.
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