Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (eBook)

Mary C. Karasch (Autor)

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2019
448 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19620-6 (ISBN)

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Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century had the largest population of urban slaves in the Americas-primary contributors to the atmosphere and vitality of the city. Although most urban historians have ignored these inhabitants of Rio, Mary Karasch's generously illustrated study provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the city's rich Afro-Cariocan culture, including its folklore, its songs, and accounts of its oral history.Professor Karasch's investigation of the origins of Rio's slaves demonstrates the importance of the "e;Central Africaness"e; of the slave population to an understanding of its culture. Challenging the thesis of the comparative mildness of the Brazilian slave system, other chapters discuss the marketing of Africans in the Valongo, the principal slave market, and the causes of early slave mortality, including the single greatest killer, tuberculosis. Also examined in detail are adaptation and resistance to slavery, occupations and roles of slaves in an urban economy, and art, religion, and associational life.Mary C. Karasch is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Adult • Africa • Africana • African cuisine • African Dance • African diaspora • African trypanosomiasis • Afro-Brazilians • Afro-Jamaican • Afro-Portuguese • Angola • Araguaia (telenovela) • atlantic slave trade • back-to-africa movement • Barotseland • barracoon • black boy • Black Brotherhood • Black Church • Black Death • Black Order (Satanist group) • black people • Brazil • Brazilian Art • Brazilian literature • brazilians • Central Africa • Child Mortality • Cholera • colonial Brazil • Color line (civil rights issue) • congo river • Culture of Brazil • Dahomey • Demographics of Brazil • Disease • East Africa • freedman • Galley slave • Haitian Revolution • Household • House of Correction • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • infanticide • KALUNGA • Kazembe • Kingdom of Kongo • Languages of Africa • Latin America • Leprosy • Liberdade (district of São Paulo) • Luanda • Machado de Assis • Malaria • Malnutrition • manumission • mfecane • Middle Passage • Minas Gerais • mortality rate • mulatto • Museu Paulista • New African • New Slaves • Order of Christ (Portugal) • Paraguayan War • Pedro II of Brazil • Pernambuco • Portuguese in Africa • Prostitution • Quilombo • quilombola • Rio de Janeiro • Rio de Janeiro (state) • Rio Grande do Sul • Rio Group • Samba school • Slave name • Slave patrol • Slave Rebellion • Slavery • Slavery in Brazil • Southern Africa • Tetanus • The Africans (radio program) • The Other Hand • The Slave Community • Tiradentes • To Be a Slave • Traditional African Religion • Tropical Disease • Tuberculosis • typhoid fever • Umbanda • West Africa • witch doctor • Yellow fever • Yoruba music • Zumbi
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19620-6 / 0691196206
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19620-6 / 9780691196206