This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays t

Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new re