Contents

Preface

I. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SLAVE LABOR

1 Origins of the African Slavery in Brazil

2 The Establishment of African Slavery in Brazil in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

3 Slavery and the Economy in the Eighteenth Century

4 Slavery and the Economy in the Nineteenth Century

5 The Economics of Slavery

II. BRAZILIAN SLAVE SOCIETY

6 Life, Death, and Migration in Afro-Brazilian Slave Society

7 Slave Resistance and Rebellion

8 Family, Kinship, and Community

9 Freedmen in a Slave Society

III. END OF SLAVERY

10 Transition from Slavery to Freedom

Bibliography

Index