Afro-Latin America - Series page

pp ii-ii

The Boundaries of Freedom - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Figures

pp viii-ix

Tables

pp x-x

Additional material

pp xi-xi

Acknowledgments

pp xii-xiv

Introduction - Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

pp 1-32

Part I - Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire

pp 33-160

1 - The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

pp 35-56

2 - “Hellish Nurseries”

pp 57-82

3 - Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone

pp 83-107

4 - Motherhood Silenced

pp 108-127

5 - The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865

pp 128-160

Part II - Bounded Emancipations

pp 161-238

6 - Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition

pp 163-182

7 - Slavery, Freedom, and the Relational City in Abolition-Era Recife

pp 183-212

8 - Migrações ao sul

pp 213-238

Part III - Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities

pp 239-338

9 - Breaking the Silence

pp 241-263

10 - The Life and Times of a Free Black Man in Brazil’s Era of Abolition

pp 264-286

11 - Political Dissonance in the Name of Freedom

pp 287-314

12 - “The East River Reminds Me of the Paraná”

pp 315-338

Part IV - Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition

pp 339-419

13 - The Past Was Black

pp 341-367

14 - From Crias da Casa to Filhos de Criação

pp 368-387

15 - Slave Songs and Racism in the Post-Abolition Americas

pp 388-419

Bibliography

pp 420-463