Escravidão na Era da Emancipação:

Vítimas e Rebeldes no Tráfico Interno de Escravizados (Brasil, Século XIX)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11117/rdp.v19i101.6417

Abstract

The trajectory from slavery to freedom is generally told in linear fashion, yet for thousands of Black people in the Americas, the last decades of slavery were a time of expanding bondage. In Brazil, an internal slave trade shifted over 200,000 people from struggling northeastern plantations to the south-central region, where commercial coffee agriculture was quickly becoming the nation’s principal export sector. Scholars are increasingly exploring the ways in which African descendants became agents of their own freedom in the Atlantic world, but such agency is less visible among the victims of domestic slave trades.

KEYWORDS: Brazil; slavery; abolition.

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Author Biography

Kim D. Butler, Rutgers University. Estados Unidos (EUA).

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, and holds M.A.s in History from Johns Hopkins and Howard Universities. She is a historian specializing in African diaspora studies with a focus on Brazil and Latin America/Caribbean. Two of her courses, “Afro-Atlantic Diaspora” and “Afro-Brazilian History” engage students with diaspora studies directly. Dr. Butler also brings her training in material and oral history, and her curating experience at the Smithsonian Institution, to a special course in Advanced Methodologies for Africana Studies Research. She is the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies, and is also a member of the graduate faculty in History. Professor Butler is the author of Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Sao Paulo and Salvador, winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association, and the Letitia Woods Brown Publication Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians. She was twice awarded the Fulbright Fellowship. From 2011-2015, she served as President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). Butler has published numerous articles on Afro-Brazilian history and, more recently, diaspora theory. Her current work applies advances in diaspora studies to new interpretations of African diaspora history. Her most recent book, Diásporas Imaginadas, is a collaborative project placing African diaspora theory in dialogue with Afro-Brazilian history.

Published

2022-04-29

How to Cite

D. Butler, K. (2022). Escravidão na Era da Emancipação:: Vítimas e Rebeldes no Tráfico Interno de Escravizados (Brasil, Século XIX). Public Law, 19(101). https://doi.org/10.11117/rdp.v19i101.6417