The Two Enslavements of Rufina: Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Keila Grinberg is Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. She has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, and a Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Her book O fiador dos brasileiros: Cidadania, escravidão e direito civil no tempo de Antonio Pereira Rebouças (Civilização Brasileira, 2002) is currently being translated into English. She has authored, coauthored, or edited ten books and dozens of articles, in Portuguese, English, and French. Her new project examines nineteenth-century cases of kidnapping and illegal enslavement on the southern Brazilian border and their larger effects on the making of South American international relations.