Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World and the Bolton Prize-winning Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society.

"Reconsiders the critical issues of how the Brazilian slave system operated, how it coexisted with a parallel system of agriculture based on free labor, and by what means African and Afro-Brazilian slaves acted to shape their own lives. . . . A coherent and highly challenging overview of one of the most important questions about Brazil's past. Handsomely printed and thoroughly documented."--Choice "Of interest to all concerned with the human interactions under nonfree--as well as free--labor systems and those involved with the historical study of slavery and slave societies."--Stanley L. Engerman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "A powerful volume."--Roy Arthur Glasgow, International Journal of African Historical Studies "Graduate students will find it indispensable."--George Reid Andrews, American Historical Review "A welcome addition to the debates on slavery. . . . Will be of interest to specialists, students, and interested laypeople."--Murici Nazzari, Slavery and Abolition

Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World and the Bolton Prize-winning Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society.

"Reconsiders the critical issues of how the Brazilian slave system operated, how it coexisted with a parallel system of agriculture based on free labor, and by what means African and Afro-Brazilian slaves acted to shape their own lives. . . . A coherent and highly challenging overview of one of the most important questions about Brazil's past. Handsomely printed and thoroughly documented."--Choice "Of interest to all concerned with the human interactions under nonfree--as well as free--labor systems and those involved with the historical study of slavery and slave societies."--Stanley L. Engerman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "A powerful volume."--Roy Arthur Glasgow, International Journal of African Historical Studies "Graduate students will find it indispensable."--George Reid Andrews, American Historical Review "A welcome addition to the debates on slavery. . . . Will be of interest to specialists, students, and interested laypeople."--Murici Nazzari, Slavery and Abolition

Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World and the Bolton Prize-winning Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society.

"Reconsiders the critical issues of how the Brazilian slave system operated, how it coexisted with a parallel system of agriculture based on free labor, and by what means African and Afro-Brazilian slaves acted to shape their own lives. . . . A coherent and highly challenging overview of one of the most important questions about Brazil's past. Handsomely printed and thoroughly documented."--Choice "Of interest to all concerned with the human interactions under nonfree--as well as free--labor systems and those involved with the historical study of slavery and slave societies."--Stanley L. Engerman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "A powerful volume."--Roy Arthur Glasgow, International Journal of African Historical Studies "Graduate students will find it indispensable."--George Reid Andrews, American Historical Review "A welcome addition to the debates on slavery. . . . Will be of interest to specialists, students, and interested laypeople."--Murici Nazzari, Slavery and Abolition