Slavery Unseen

Lamonte Aidoo is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and the coeditor of Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives.

"Slavery Unseen is an interesting effort to present a little-known side of Brazilian slavery. The book is a good reading both for specialists and for members of the broader public who want to understand the roots of racism and violence that characterize Brazilian society up to the present day." - Ynaê Lopes dos Santos (Labor) "Slavery Unseen goes beyond typical studies of power and sexual violence by moving away from the quintessential master and enslaved female dialectic. . . . Aidoo has crafted a brilliant and engaging piece of research that will pave the way for future studies of sexuality, power, and violence across the transatlantic world." - Rachael Pasierowska (H-Net Reviews) "Slavery Unseen is revelatory and will change the field of Brazilian history. . . . [Aidoo] has managed to condense an enormous amount of archival information into a compelling text with major implications for history, literature, gender studies, critical race studies, and Luso-Brazilian studies." - Gregory Mitchell (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) “Originally conceived, meticulously researched, and well written and argued, [Aidoo’s] book is an intellectually sophisticated interdisciplinary study that examines the race relations and interracial sexual violence that are embedded in Brazilian slavery. . . . Slavery Unseen will certainly leave its vital mark in the fields of Luso-Brazilian studies and Afro-Diaspora studies for years to come.” - Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte (Revista Hispánica Moderna)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Secrets, Silences, and Sexual Erasures in Brazilian Slavery and History  11. The Racial and Sexual Paradoxes of Brazilian Slavery and National Identity  112. Illegible Violence: The Rape and Sexual Abuse of Male Slaves  293. The White Mistress and the Slave Woman: Seduction, Violence, and Exploitation  674. Social Whiteness: Black Intraracial Violence and the Boundaries of Black Freedom  1115. O Diabo Preto (The Negro Devil): The Myth of the Black Homosexual Predator in the Age of Social Hygiene  149Afterword. Seeing the Unseen: The Life and Afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva  187Notes  197Bibliography  227Index  249