New edited volume by Dominique Rogers and Boris Lesueur, via Karthala: "L’affranchissement individuel au sein d’une société à esclaves ou esclavagiste informe sur des situations singulières ou exceptionnelles. Dans une perspective comparatiste, cet ouvrage examine les parcours originaux de ces affranchis entre le XIVe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle, et dans un vaste … Continue reading EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
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On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco – The Black Scholar
Kia L. Caldwell, Wendi Muse, Tianna S. Paschel, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Christen A. Smith, and Erica L. Williams publish collective statement on the assassination of Marielle Franco: "The egregiousness of the targeted assassination of an elected official has mobilized people throughout Brazil and around the world. We must maintain this momentum if we want ensure … Continue reading On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco – The Black Scholar
BOOK: Acerbi on Street Occupations in Brazil
Patricia Acerbi, Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925. University of Texas Press, 2017. via University of Texas Press: "Street vending has supplied the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro with basic goods for several centuries. Once the province of African slaves and free blacks, street commerce became a site of expanded (mostly European) … Continue reading BOOK: Acerbi on Street Occupations in Brazil
VIDEO: Valongo Wharf on Slavery Archive TV
With Ana Lucia Araujo: This episode focuses on Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which was recently included in UNESCO's World Heritage List. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IglHc3Q77A8
Mendoza on Country Marks on Enslaved Africans in Brazil
Elsa Barraza Mendoza writes: "The day after Thanksgiving in 1838, a group of American scientists and sailors docked in the port of Rio de Janeiro. They were the members of the United States Exploring Expedition, and thanks to the detailed notes of one of its members, Horatio Hale, historians can unravel one of Rio’s enduring … Continue reading Mendoza on Country Marks on Enslaved Africans in Brazil
EDITED: Mann, Bay, and More on Rethinking the African Diaspora (2001)
African Diaspora, Ph.D. is revisiting scholarship that has shaped the study of people of African descent across time and place.... Mann, Kristin, and Edna G. Bay, eds. Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil. Psychology Press, 2001. "One of the most heavily travelled migration … Continue reading EDITED: Mann, Bay, and More on Rethinking the African Diaspora (2001)
Childs on A Escrava Isaura and the Drama of White Slavery | @AAIHS
Childs writes: "Later in 1976 the novel would be reconceptualized as a television show, or telenovela. It was wildly successful and became one of the most watched television programs in the world, broadcasted in over 80 countries. It was undoubtedly a smash success in South America but also in the Soviet Union, China, Poland, and Hungary. In fact, it was in Hungary where the most intriguing- or depending on your perspective, most comical- story about the telenovela comes to us. According to legend, it was in Hungary in the 1980s where the faithful viewers of Escrava Isaura took up collections after the final episode of the series to help purchase Isaura’s freedom...."
EDITED: Campbell and Elbourne on Sex, Power and Slavery
Gwyn Campbell and Elizabeth Elbourne, eds. Sex, Power, and Slavery. Ohio University Press, 2014. via Ohio University Press: Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: … Continue reading EDITED: Campbell and Elbourne on Sex, Power and Slavery
BOOK: Cowling on Women, Gender, Emancipation in Cuba & Brazil
Cowling, Camillia. Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. via UNC Press: "In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and … Continue reading BOOK: Cowling on Women, Gender, Emancipation in Cuba & Brazil
BOOK: Mattoso on Slavery in Brazil
African Diaspora, Ph.D. is revisiting scholarship that has shaped the study of people of African descent across time and place. Kátia M. de Queirós Mattoso. To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. In a 1987, Maricela Medina wrote: Although the bibliography on Brazilian slavery is extensive, publishedworks have generally … Continue reading BOOK: Mattoso on Slavery in Brazil
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