{"product_id":"crossroads-of-freedom-9780822360902","title":"Crossroads of Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary Ann Mahony has adeptly translated one of the best monographic histories of slaves for the vast sugar lands of Brazil. . . . This book extends Fraga’s 2004 dissertation and is a must read for specialists of slavery, emancipation, or Brazil, and, if contextualized, should be compelling to undergraduates and general readers as well. Highly recommended.\" -- I. W. Read * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“This rich collection of documents constitutes a major contribution to the literature on post-emancipation Brazil.” -- Oscar de la Torre * EIAL *\u003cbr\u003e\"[C]arefully researched ... \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e provides unique insights into what happened next following the emancipation of the slaves from the sugar plantations of Recôncavo.\" -- Eugene Carey * Latin American Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure to read and a tremendous contribution to the study of slavery and abolition.\" -- Anadelia A. Romano * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterful translation. . . . \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e provides valuable insight into not only slavery and freedom in the Recôncavo of Bahia and Brazil by extension, but also how these social forces informed Brazilian race relations more generally and the directives of the black liberation struggle in terms of battling persistent patterns of social inequality.\" -- G. Reginald Daniel * Bulletin of Latin American Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"Walter Fraga's book is undoubtedly one of the most important results of Brazilian social history that has been produced in the past 15 years.\" -- Alain El Youssef * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Currency and Orthography  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the English-Langauge Edition \/ Mary Ann Mahony  xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword to the Brazilian Edition \/ Robert W. Slenes  xxiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xxvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery  9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation  29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880–1888  56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. May 13, 1888 and Its Immediate Aftermath  74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Heads Spinning with Freedom  103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations  139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations  161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Community and Family Life among Freed People  190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Other Post-emancipation Itineraries  211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom  236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Glossary  283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  301","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406094311767,"sku":"9780822360902","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360902.jpg?v=1730494505","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crossroads-of-freedom-9780822360902","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}