The Boundaries of Freedom

Introduction: Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century Brazil Brodwyn Fischer and Keila Grinberg; Part I. Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil's Slave Empire: 1. The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Keila Grinberg and Beatriz Mamigonian; 2. 'Hellish Nurseries:' Slave Smuggling, Child Trafficking, and Local Complicity in Nineteenth Century Pernambuco Marcus Carvalho; 3. Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth Century Brazilian Coffee Zone Ricardo Salles and Mariana Muaze; 4. Motherhood Silenced: Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth Century Brazil Mariana Muaze; 5. The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840-1865 Keila Grinberg; Part II. Bounded Emancipations: 6. Body, Gender and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman and Ovidia, a Slave Maria Helena Pereira Machado; 7. Slavery, Freedom and the Relational City in Abolition-era Recife Brodwyn Fischer; 8. Migracoes ao sul: Memories of Land and Work in Brazil's Slaveholding Southeast Robson Luis Machado Martins and Flavio Gomes; Part III. Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities: 9. Breaking the Silence: Racial Subjectivities, Abolitionism, and Public Life in mid-1870s Recife Celso Castilho and Rafaella Valenca de Andrade Galvao; 10. The Life and Times of a Free Black Man in Brazil's Era of Abolition: Teodoro Sampaio, 1855-1937 Wlamyra Albuquerque; 11. Political Dissonance in the Name of Freedom: Brazil's Black Organizations in the Age of Abolition Ana Flavia Magalhaes Pinto; 12. The East River Reminds Me of the Parana: Racism, Subjectivity and Transnational Political Action in the Life of Andre Reboucas Hebe Mattos; Part IV. Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition: 13. The Past was Black: Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery Daryle Williams; 14. From Crias de Casa to Filhos de Criacao: Raising Illegitimate Children in the 'Big House' in Post-Abolition Brazil Sueann Caulfield; 15. Slave Songs and Racism in the post-Abolition Americas: Eduardo das Neves and Bert Williams in Comparative Perspective Martha Abreu; Bibliography; Index.