Policing Freedom

Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

AvMartine Jean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population during the foundational period of Brazilian state formation and postcolonial nation building. Placing this penitentiary within the global debates about the disciplinary benefits of confinement and the evolution of free labor ideology, Martine Jean illustrates how Brazil's political elites envisioned the penitentiary as a way to discipline the free working class. While participating in the debates about the inhumanity of the slave trade, philanthropists and lawmakers, both conservative and liberal, articulated a nation-building discourse that focused on reforming Brazil's vagrants into workers in anticipation of slavery's eventual demise, laying the racialized foundations for policing and incarceration in the post-emancipation period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-17
Mått:158 x 236 x 28 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Afro-Latin America
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009289115

Utforska kategorier

Kriminalvård och straff inom Samhälle och politik
Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Martine Jean is an independent scholar and historian of nineteenth-century Brazil, slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship in the Atlantic World. Her work has been published in many journals including Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Journal of Social History and Slavery and Abolition. This is her first book.

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'Brazil has one of the highest prison populations in the world -it comes third, after the US and China. Adopting a micro-global approach, Policing Freedom masterfully connects the history of prisons with the crisis of slavery and the transformations in labor regimes in the Atlantic world during the nineteenth century.' Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. The rogues' gallery; 1. The politics of slavery, race, nation, and prison building; 2. Confinement, labor, and citizenship; 3. Prison labor and the politics of slavery; 4. Disciplining children and engendering racialized citizenship; 5. Adelino Mwissicongo and the afterlife of emancipation; Conclusion. Slavery's punitive afterlife; Appendix.