Slavery in Brazil
Slavery in Brazil

Author: Herbert S. Klein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0521193982

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This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. This book aims to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.

Angola Em Movimento
Angola Em Movimento

Author: Beatrix Heintze

Publisher: Verlag Otto Lembeck

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 3874765539

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"This book aims to provide a better understanding of the significance and dynamics of communication and transport routes in Angola and its hinterland."--Back cover.

Modern Brazil
Modern Brazil

Author: Herbert S. Klein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1108489028

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The first social history examining all aspects of Brazil's radical transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban one.

Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922
Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922

Author: David Northrup

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-06-30

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780521485197

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The indentured labour trade was begun to replace freed slaves on sugar plantations in British colonies in the 1830s, but expanded to many other locations around the world. This is the first survey of the global flow of indentured migrants from Africa that developed after the end of the slave trade and continued until shortly after the First World War. This volume describes the experiences of the two million Asians, Africans, and South Pacific Islanders who signed long-term labour contracts in return for free passage overseas, modest wages, and other benefits. The experience of these indentured migrants of different origins and destinations is compared in terms of their motives, conditions of travel, and subsequent creation of permanent overseas settlements.

Slave Rebellion in Brazil
Slave Rebellion in Brazil

Author: João José Reis

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1995-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780801852503

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On the night of January 24, 1835, hundreds of African Muslim slaves poured into the streets of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian province of Bahia, to confront soldiers and armed civilians. Nearly 70 slaves were killed. More than 500 were sentenced to death, prison, whipping or deportation. Although the rebel slaves failed to win their freedom, the repercussions of their actions were felt throughout the nation, making this the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas, and the only one in which Islam played a major role. In this history of the 1835 uprising, Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious and domestic lives in Salvador. Now available in this revised and expanded English edition, "Slave Rebellion in Brazil" is a portrait of the conditions of urban slavery and an absorbing account of conspiracy, uprising and punishment. --

Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar

Author: Walton Look Lai

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2004-03-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801877469

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In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies—with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model.

Workers of the World
Workers of the World

Author: Marcel van der Linden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9047442849

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The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world. The following questions are central: ▪ What is the nature of the world working class, on which Global Labor History focuses? How can we define and demarcate that class, and which factors determine its composition? ▪ Which forms of collective action did this working class develop in the course of time, and what is the logic in that development? ▪ What can we learn from adjacent disciplines? Which insights from anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists are useful in the development of Global Labor History?

Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Author: Stuart B. Schwartz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780521313995

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Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.