A slave's place, a master's world : fashioning dependency in rural Brazil

A slave's place, a master's world : fashioning dependency in rural Brazil /

Based on field research, this study evaluates the transition from slave to free labour in rural Brazil, highlighting the ways in which slaves, free farmers, freedmen and planters fashioned the free labour markets in an agrarian economy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Naro, Nancy Priscilla (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Series:Bloomsbury academic collections. History of the transatlantic slave trade.
Subjects:
Slavery > Brazil > Psychological aspects.
Power (Social sciences) > Brazil > History.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Brazil > History.
Agricultural laborers > Brazil > History.
Brazil > Rural conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Sitios
  • 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
  • Persistent 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.

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