Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil

by Adriana Michele Campos Johnson

In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony s residents, primarily disenfranchised former slaves, mestizos, landless farmers, and uprooted Indians, followed a man known as Antonio Conselheiro (\u201cThe Counselor\u201d), who promoted a communal existence, free of taxes and oppression. To the fledgling republic of Brazil, the settlement represented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961237
• ISBN13: 9780822961239
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"