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Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels

Stuart B. Schwartz
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780252065491
  • Weight: 254g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 1995
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to place their ethnographic approach in the context of enslavement as an oppressive social and economic system. Schwartz demonstrates the complexity of the system by reconsidering work, resistance, kinship, and relations between enslaved persons and peasants. As he shows, enslaved people played a role in shaping not only their lives but Brazil’s institutionalized system of slavery by using their own actions and attitudes to place limits on slaveholders. 

A bold analysis of changing ideas in the field, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels provides insights on how the shifting power relationship between enslaved people and slaveholders reshaped the contours of Brazilian society.
About Stuart B. Schwartz
Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World and the Bolton Prize-winning Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society.

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