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Book SynopsisThe Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Prologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian World João José Reis Introduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences? ngela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel Cahen Part 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia 1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’ Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries) Rômulo da Silva Ehalt 2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea Region James Fujitani 3 From Asia to Lisbon Fragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries) Patricia Souza de Faria Part 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion 4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de Céspedes Sophia Blea Nuñez 5 “Pública Notícia” Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brazil Lisa Voigt 6 Creolizing Death Afro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian World Miguel A. Valerio 7 Black Masters A Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, Brazil Robson Pedrosa Costa 8 The Qurʾan in My Notebook Slavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, Brazil Michel Kabalan Part 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation 9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century) Silvia Hunold Lara 10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and Memory Hebe Mattos 11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’ Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of Portugal Fernanda Domingos Pinheiro 12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social Mobility Crosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840) Magdalena Candioti 13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873 Lisa Surwillo 14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São Tomé Marta Macedo Postface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and Emotion Michelle A. McKinley Index
