Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels - Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Blacks in the New World
Release date:	December 1995
First published:	December 1995
Authors:	Stuart B. Schwartz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06549-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-252-06549-2
Barcode:	9780252065491

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