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Robert E. Conrad is the author of The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850-88 (California, 1972; reissued Krieger, 1993), World of Sorrow: Teh African Slave Trade to Brazil (LSU, 1986), and translator/editor of Sandino: The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934 (Princeton, 1990).
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Indispensable Brazilian Slavery Research Text,
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This review is from: Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil (Paperback)
Composed of myriad primary sources, Conrad prefaces each document with a description, date and summary of the following text. Organized topically and then chronologically within each section, the format perfectly suits the researcher. Interestingly, (for my purposes) the text contains numerous accounts of quilombos in Palmares, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and others. The documents date from 1550 (approx.) through the final proclamation ending slavery in Brazil in 1888. Outstanding research tool, as well as an interesting read for those wishing to learn, first hand, about slavery in Brazil.
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slavery in Brazil! This book is very good! It backs everything up with documentation and it shows how cruel of an institution slavery was in Brazil. It also gives the reader a good idea on the scope of slavery in Brazil. 40% of the Africans transported to the new world went to Brazil. This was a country that was totally dependent on African slave labor.
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This book is a giant collection of primary sources collected and edited by Robert Conrad pertaining to black slavery in Brazil. We used this book in my Slaves Societies of the Americas history course and it was an invaluable asset to my research. I had learned almost nothing about slavery in Brazil prior to reading this book and it has truly showed me the horrors of the institution of slavery. Having been mostly educated on slavery in the US South, I was shocked to discover that there were vastly more slaves in Brazil and that the Brazilian slavery system lasted practically until 1890. This is a must read for those who wish to gain a better understanding of what slavery in the Americas was truly like.
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- Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (New World in the Atlantic World) by Kirsten Schultz on page 186, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (New World in the Atlantic World) by Kirsten Schultz on page 186, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora by Linda M. Heywood on page 159, and page 351
- Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Studies in Comparative World History) by Lauren Benton on page 52, and Back Matter
- Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988 by Michael George Hanchard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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