A slave's place, a master's world : fashioning dependency in rural Brazil /: fashioning dependency in rural Brazil. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nancy Priscilla Naro.
• Authors: Naro, Nancy Priscilla
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.3/62/0981; Slavery -- Brazil -- Psychological aspects; Power (Social sciences) -- Brazil -- History; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Brazil -- History; Agricultural laborers -- Brazil -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Slavery -- Psychological aspects; Rural conditions; Power (Social sciences); Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agricultural laborers; Brazil -- Rural conditions; Brazil; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474287456
• Related ISBNs: 147428745X; 9780826452955
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 1, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.