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100 1 _aNaro, Nancy Priscilla.
245 1 2 _aA Slave's Place, a Master's World :
_bFashioning Dependency in Rural Brazil.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing Plc,
_c2001.
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource (242 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
505 0 _aCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Persistence of Africa in Post-Emancipation Brazil -- Human merchandise -- The persistence of Africa -- Cultural dismissal -- 2 Ordering the Wilderness -- Two towns -- Distant origins of a bitter bean -- The reign of coffee -- The regional drift of the Rio de Janeiro provincial population, c. 1840 -- Slaves and slave ownership -- Harnessing the wilderness: refashioning the land and the landscape -- Displacement or incorporation in Vassouras: slaves, foodstuffs and coffee -- Alternative agendas: Rio Bonito -- Coffee in abundance: food in short supply -- From wilderness to occupation: fazendas, slaves and coffee -- 3 Fazenda Spaces and Social Relations: The Great House, Slave Quarters, Fields and Sítios -- Coffee fazendas -- Organizing the landscape: fazenda layouts -- Hierarchical social relations: the great house -- The spatial dimensions of social complementarity -- Ambiguous spaces and social boundaries: guest quarters and verandas -- The slave quarters: physical incorporation, social exclusion -- The terrace -- The fields: changing gender ratios -- Between the senzala and the great house: sitios and small farms -- New fields, new identities: a microcosm for freedom -- Changing landscapes: conflicting identities -- 4 Masters and Slaves: Authority and Control -- The case of Emerenciana's children: a legal bridge to freedom -- Slave family units -- Slave occupations -- Authority and fertility in the senzala -- Masters and slaves -- Women and families: the changing nature of the rural population -- Land and inheritance: the ideals and illusions of freedom -- Passing as free -- Ambiguity and controversy over emancipation -- Constraints on the emancipation process -- 5 Fashioning Freedom: Private Interests, Public Spheres.
505 8 _aPersistent beliefs -- Public restrictions on slaves -- Slave punishments and resistance -- From the fazenda to the courthouse -- Moral authority -- Transition at a gradual pace -- Brazilian captives -- Lavradores and jornaleiros -- Manumission and the obstacles to freedom in Rio Bonito and Vassouras -- Changing landscapes: redoubled resistance -- Fazenda configurations -- Quilombos: fuelling freedom from the fazenda -- 6 The Transition to Free Labour -- Planter options -- Post-emancipation rural society -- From slaving to farming -- Labour arrangements -- Enduring bondage -- Workers aplenty but nobody to farm -- Migration -- Customary rights: non-negotiable claims -- Citizenship as avessas -- Involuntary labour -- 7 Epilogue -- Order and progress -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSlavery--Brazil--Psychological aspects.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aNaro, Nancy Priscilla
_tA Slave's Place, a Master's World
_dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2001
_z9780826452955
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 4 _aThe Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4653893
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