Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery

by Stuart B. Schwartz

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065492
• ISBN13: 9780252065491
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"