...John C. Marquez Abstract In 1753, a pregnant woman named Paula was kidnapped in Angola, enslaved, and taken to Brazil. Four decades later, in 1794, Paula's children and grandchildren, 15 in total, filed a lawsuit for their family's freedom in Rio de Janeiro claiming that Paula was a free woman...

.... Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom , 1750-1925 (New York, 1976) and Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women , Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York, 1985). Andrews calls attention to family-oriented goals through his emphasis on the withdrawal...

...Pedro A. Cabán Puerto Rico: Equality and Freedom At Issue . By García-Passalacqua Juan M. . New York : Praeger , 1984 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Indexes . Pp. xiv , 175 . Cloth. $27.95 . Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment . By Carr Raymond . Foreword by Rossant...

... of the central arguments. For example, chapter 9, which discusses family and kinship, tells us more about the author’s assessment of Herbert Gutman’s The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (New York, 1976) than about Black family life in colonial Brazil. The book, however, is not without...

...Alex Lichtenstein The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 . By Holt Thomas C. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1992 . Photographs. Plates. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xxx , 517...

...Gabriel Jackson Freedom and Catholic Power in Spain and Portugal. An American Interpretation . By Blanshard Paul . Boston , 1962 . Beacon Press . Appendix. Notes. Index . Pp. ix , 300 . $3.95 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 The present volume contains...

...Thomas Mathews Puerto Rico, Freedom and Power in the Caribbean . By Lewis Gordon K. . New York , 1963 . Monthly Review Press . Notes. Index . Pp. 626 . $10.00 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Doña Inés Mendoza de Muñoz has been effusive in her praise...

...James Ferguson King From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes . By Franklin John Hope . ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1947 . Pp. xv , 622 , xlii . $5.00 . Illustrations .) Copyright 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ...

...Wesley C. Clark The Inter American Press Association: Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926-1960 . By Gardner Mary A. . Austin , 1967 . University of Texas Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 217 . $5.00 . Copyright...

... and References. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 240 . $5.00 . The Springtime of Freedom. Evolution of Developing Societies . By McCord William . New York , 1965 . Oxford University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 330 . $2.25 . In The Springtime of Freedom , William McCord offers...

...Shirley Akerman Bill The Foundations of Freedom. The Interrelationship between Democracy and Human Bights . By Sandifer Durward W. and Scheman L. Ronald . New York , 1966 . Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers . Appendix. Notes . Pp. xiii , 139 . $5.00 . Scholars may wish...

...Andrew J. Kirkendall Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War . By William Michael Schmidli . The United States in the World . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 312 pp...

... to subvert blackface to open up new spaces for Black culture. The Boundaries of Freedom is an excellent book for both specialists and graduate students, certain to generate new questions about slavery, emancipation, and race in a key space of the Atlantic world. Within the struggle for abolition...

...Rafael R. Ioris [email protected] Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South . Edited by Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman . Histories of Internationalism . London : Bloomsbury , 2023 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Index. ix , 279 pp...

...Robert J. Cottrol [email protected] Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire . By Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey . Atlantic Crossings . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2020 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...David M. Pletcher Wilson. The New Freedom . By Link Arthur S. . Princeton, New Jersey , 1956 . Princeton University Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 504 . $7.50 . Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ...

...Erin W. Stone In their ambitious text Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits cover the histories of slavery, freedom, and coercion across the Caribbean islands over six centuries. In doing so they complicate the story of slavery and emancipation in the region. The most unique aspect of the work...

...Keila Grinberg Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana . By Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross Studies in Legal History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. xiv , 281 pp...

...Donna J. Guy Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina . By Natalia Milanesio . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2019 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 326 pp. Cloth, $45.00...

...Stuart B. Schwartz The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic . By João José Reis , Flávio dos Santos Gomes , and Marcos J. M. de Carvalho . Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill . New York : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Map. Figures...