Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on Currency and Orthography vii
4. Introduction to the English-Language Edition xi
5. Foreword to the Brazilian Edition xxiii
6. Acknowledgments xxvii
7. Introduction 1
8. ONE Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery 9
9. TWO Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation 29
10. THREE Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880–1888 56
11. FOUR May 13, 1888, and Its Immediate Aftermath 74
12. FIVE Heads Spinning with Freedom 103
13. SIX After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 139
14. SEVEN Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations 161
15. EIGHT Community and Family Life among Freed People 190
16. NINE Other Post-emancipation Itineraries 211
17. Epilogue In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom 236
18. Notes 245
19. Glossary 283
20. Bibliography 285
21. Index 301