New frontiers of slavery / edited and with an introduction by Dale W. Tomich.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Tomich, Dale W., 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Series:Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science.
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Table of Contents:
  • Vassouras yesterday and today: revisiting the work of Stanley J. Stein / Dale W. Tomich
  • Agency and transnational perspectives on the constitution of waged, unfree, and free labor: the role of mobility in the nineteenth century / Yann Moulier Boutang
  • The discovery of progress in Cuba: machines, slaves, businesses / José Antonio Piqueras
  • Antislavery and nationalism on the two sides of the Atlantic: in search of forgotten links between the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe / Enrico Dal Lago
  • African labor in Guyana and the expansion of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed
  • On the blurred boundaries of freedom: liberated Africans in Cuba, 1817-1870 / Inés Roldán de Montaud
  • Plantation laboratories: industrial experiments in the Cuban sugar mill, 1830-1860 / Daniel Rood
  • Slavery, frontier, and diplomatic relations: Brazil-Uruguay, 1840-1860 / Keila Grinberg and Rachel Caé
  • Ruling the household: masters and domestic slaves in the Paraiba Valley, Brazil, during the nineteenth century / Mariana Muaze
  • French travelers and journalists debate the Lei do Ventre Livre of 1871 / Claudia Santos.