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... of abolitionist thought. Rather than orient the origins of such movements to the North, Mendonça's story instead points to an Ibero-African tradition of collective action against slavery's inhumanity. Lingna Nafafé creatively explores the evolving political thought of Mendonça as he traveled from his natal...

...Robin Blackburn The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro . By Jeffrey D. Needell Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2020 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 361 pp. Cloth, $75.00...

...T.P. Moorfield Storey and the Abolitionist Tradition . By Hixson William B. Jr. New York , 1972 . Oxford University Press . Illustration. Index . Pp. ix , 256 . Cloth, $8.50 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Few Latin Americanists will recognize the name...

...S. M. Politics and the Public Conscience: Slave Emancipation and the Abolitionist Movement in Britain . By Hurwitz Edith F. . New York , 1973 . Barnes and Noble . Historical Problems: Studies and Documents, 23 . Index . Pp. 179 . Cloth. Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press...

... the transatlantic slave trade” (p. 35). The next chapter turns to Tapia y Rivera's La cuarterona (1867). Silverstein argues that the play is neither utopian nor unconditionally abolitionist but rather grapples with Cuban “Negrophobia” by “neutralizing” the mulatto through both antiblack racism and Judophobia (p...

...Celso Thomas Castilho Abstract This article highlights the centrality of theatrical and carnival performances to the making of the Brazilian abolitionist movement. Based on the case study of Recife, it argues that these cultural manifestations were integral to broadly politicizing the problem...

... roles. We further argue that the order's decisions and actions were ahead of national developments in several important ways, and that, to some degree, these projects were a test case for future national abolitionist policies. Although the congregation did not involve itself in political debates, its...

... be morally indebted to abolitionists and their successors. The politics of gratitude thus provided the ideological structures through which liberal reformists could preserve a racialized and patriarchal social order in the absence of slavery. In the process, liberals also constituted themselves as the only...

..., inventions, and practices such as the Lancasterian system of monitorial education, trial by jury, freedom of the press laws, steam engines, and mining technology. This generation of independence leaders carried on a purposeful correspondence with famous British figures such as abolitionist William...

...Alex Lichtenstein Of course, the antislavery movement itself used the comparative method. Abolitionists in each country relied upon mirror-image myths, each for their own purposes: “The intertwined ideas of the American racial hell and the Brazilian racial paradise are not of recent invention...

...Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 This article reexamines the historical trajectory of escaped slaves who, encouraged by the abolitionist propaganda of the 1880s, established themselves in the runaway slave communities of Jabaquara and Pai Felipe...

...Alicia L. Monroe Castilho argues that an important new form of protest emergent in abolitionist organizing was the “abolitionist parade” (p. 105). This interpretation provides much-needed emphasis on how supporters of emancipation made the street, generally seen as a place of disorder...

... of Charles Cumberland’s Mexican Revolution. Genesis under Madero (1952) and Stanley Ross’s Francisco I. Madero. Apostle of Mexican Democracy (1955). Both Toplin and Conrad draw heavily on the annals of the Imperial Parliament and on the abolitionist press. Both reinforce many of the conclusions reached...

... by the unyielding attitude of the São Paulo politicians, abolitionists singled out the province as the key post in the slaveholders’ perimeter of defense. As late as 1883, the Rio News reported that “in São Paulo, there is not only no enthusiasm, but there seems to be decided opposition to emancipation,” and José...

... importance. One is left with the general impression that the Brazilian Parliament issued the law freeing the slaves in response to humanitarian sentiments and to the pressure of public opinion aroused by a propaganda campaign ably directed by a handful of abolitionists. Pandiá Calógeras insisted...

... and political actor, 19 and Brazil alone developed a domestically based slave trade with Africa well before the beginning of interventionist British abolitionist diplomacy. This stood Brazil’s slaveowners in good stead during the semiclandestine stage of the slave trade after Waterloo. However, before...

...). The study is an historical search for a liberating church in the decades before the abolition of slavery in 1888. The subject proves elusive: Bosl concludes that the Brazilian church played at best a minor role in the abolitionist movement. Clerics and religious orders owned slaves, the church defended...

... Press 2013 This book is a must- read for historians of slave emancipation in Brazil. In revisiting the broad influence of juridical struggles for freedom during the first collective abolitionist mobilizations of the late 1860s, and then tracing the persisting force of such practices through...

... . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Scholars of Atlantic slave systems and antislavery movements will welcome this volume containing 14 of Seymour Drescher’s essays, written over the past 25 years, on the Atlantic slave trade and abolitionist movements. Stanley Engerman has written a foreword...

... with an interest in protecting the former slaves, whom they perceived as unprepared for freedom. Abolitionists seconded the benevolent concern when considering the liberation of the elderly and the psychologically ill-equipped masses. Further, she argues that — given the government’s inability to address the needs...