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Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds -

Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds

(16th-20th centuries)
Buch | Softcover
338 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72256-9 (ISBN)
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This book examines the individual and collective subjectivities of enslaved individuals in the Iberian worlds, exploring a broad chronology and geography, including the Indian Ocean. It offers a nuanced analysis of the complexities of race, gender, labor, social mobility, religion, and politics.
The Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic.

Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.

Ângela Barreto Xavier is a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. She has widely published on issues relating with questions of power and domination and the agency and subjectivities of subaltern people in the context of the Portuguese early-modern empire. Cristina Nogueira da Silva is Professor at the Law School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and researcher at its research center, CEDIS. Her main research areas are classical liberalism and citizenship in the nineteenth century, the history of the legal personal status in the Portuguese overseas territories, as well as the way legal concepts and institutions were used by enslaved and free subaltern people in the context of the Portuguese contemporary empire. Michel Cahen is a political historian of modern colonial Portugal and contemporary Portuguese-speaking Africa. He is emeritus CNRS Senior Researcher at the Centre ‘Les Afriques dans le monde’ (Sciences Po Bordeaux). His main interests relate to Marxism and nationalism, identity and citizenship, political identity at the margins, coloniality and globalisation.

Acknowledgments


List of Figures and Tables





Prologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian World


 João José Reis





Introduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences?


 Ângela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel Cahen





Part 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia


1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’


 Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries)


 Rômulo da Silva Ehalt





2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea Region


 James Fujitani





3 From Asia to Lisbon


 Fragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries)


 Patricia Souza de Faria





Part 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion


4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de Céspedes


 Sophia Blea Nuñez





5 “Pública Notícia”


 Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brazil


 Lisa Voigt





6 Creolizing Death


 Afro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian World


 Miguel A. Valerio





7 Black Masters


 A Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, Brazil


 Robson Pedrosa Costa





8 The Qurʾan in My Notebook


 Slavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, Brazil


 Michel Kabalan





Part 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation


9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)


 Silvia Hunold Lara





10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and Memory


 Hebe Mattos





11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’


 Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of Portugal


 Fernanda Domingos Pinheiro





12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social Mobility


 Crosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840)


 Magdalena Candioti





13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873


 Lisa Surwillo





14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São Tomé


 Marta Macedo





Postface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and Emotion


 Michelle A. McKinley





Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.12.2024
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 90-04-72256-4 / 9004722564
ISBN-13 978-90-04-72256-9 / 9789004722569
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