Policing Freedom - Illegal Enslavement, Labor, Citizenship in Nineteenth Century Brazil

"Policing Freedom explores the history of punishment in Brazil, intersecting with studies on the global history of punishment, which historicize the prison as existing within a continuum of punitive strategies to discipline Brazil's racially diverse working-class. Key reading for students and scholars of the Atlantic slave trade"--

List of contents

Introduction. The rogues' gallery; 1. The politics of slavery, race, nation, and prison building; 2. Confinement, labor, and citizenship; 3. Prison labor and the politics of slavery; 4. Disciplining children and engendering racialized citizenship; 5. Adelino Mwissicongo and the afterlife of emancipation; Conclusion. Slavery's punitive afterlife; Appendix.

About the author

Martine Jean is an independent scholar and historian of nineteenth-century Brazil, slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship in the Atlantic World. Her work has been published in many journals including Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Journal of Social History and Slavery and Abolition. This is her first book.

Summary

Policing Freedom explores the history of punishment in Brazil, intersecting with studies on the global history of punishment, which historicize the prison as existing within a continuum of punitive strategies to discipline Brazil's racially diverse working-class. Key reading for students and scholars of the Atlantic slave trade.

Product details

• Authors: Martine Jean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781009289115
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928911-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; HISTORY / Latin America / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Penology and punishment, Political control and freedoms, Sociology: work and labour, Slavery and abolition of slavery