{"product_id":"slaves-peasants-and-rebels","title":"Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold analysis of changing ideas in the field, \u003ci\u003eSlaves, Peasants, and Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e provides insights on how the shifting power relationship between enslaved people and slaveholders reshaped the contours of Brazilian society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244464001368,"sku":"9780252065491","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/slaves-peasants-and-rebels","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}