Franciscode Paula Brito: A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil

Foreword to the Brazilian Edition

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: THE VENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF A FREE PRINTER

1. A “Dove without Gall” and the Court of Public Opinion

2. Plantation Lad

3. Apprentice Printer and Poet

4. 1831, Year of Possibilities

5. Bookseller-Printer

6. Press Laws and Offences in the “Days of Father Feijó”

PART TWO: CONSERVATIVE IMPARTIALITY

7. “A Very Well Set-Up Establishment”

8. Newspapers, Theses, and Brazilian Literature

9. Workers, Slaves, and Free Africans

10. “The Progress of the Nation Consists Solely in Regression”

PART THREE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE DOUS DE DEZEMBRO COMPANY

11. Man of Color and Printer of the Imperial House

12. From Printer to Literary Publisher

13. Debts and the Dangerous Game of the Stock Market

14. From Bankruptcy Protection to Liquidation

PART FOUR: REDISCOVERED ILLUSIONS

15. A New Beginning

16. The Petalogical Society

17. Literary Mutualism

18. The Publisher and His Authors

19. Rio de Janeiro’s Publishing Market (1840–1850)

20. The Widow Paula Brito

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