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The Boundaries of Freedom

Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil

Av Brodwyn Fischer, Keila Grinberg

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The Boundaries of Freedom brings together, for the first time in English, key scholars writing on the social and cultural history of Brazilian slavery, emphasizing the centrality of slavery, abolition, and Black subjectivity in the forging of modern Brazil, the largest and most enduring slave society in the Americas. Nearly five million enslaved Africans were forced to Brazil's shores over four and a half centuries, making slavery integral to every aspect of its colonial and national history, stretching beyond temporal and geographical boundaries. This book introduces English-language readers to a paradigm-shifting renaissance in Brazilian scholarship that has taken place in the past several decades, upending longstanding assumptions on slavery's relation to law, property, sexuality and family; reconceiving understandings of slave economies; and engaging with issues of agency, autonomy, and freedom. These vibrant debates are explored in fifteen essays that place the Brazilian experience in dialogue with the afterlives of slavery worldwide.
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Brodwyn Fischer is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Chicago. She has won awards from the Social Science History Association, the Urban Studies Association, the Brazilian Studies Association, and the Conference on Latin American History. She has authored two books, A Poverty of Rights and Cities from Scratch. Keila Grinberg is Professor of Latin American and Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a specialist on slavery and race in the Atlantic World. Her book A Black Jurist in a Slave Society was a finalist for the 2020 Frederick Douglass Prize.

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'This pathbreaking volume reveals and refines the signature methods that have placed the 'Brazilian school' at the forefront of Latin American historiographies of slavery, abolition, and post-emancipation societies. Moving nimbly between broad processes and lived experience, contributors offer new perspectives, from the South Atlantic, on the urgent question of how dynamics rooted in slavery persist so powerfully after slavery's end.' Paulina L. Alberto, author of Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

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