Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Map 1. The Empire of Brazil in South America. Based on the Atlas do Império do Brazil (Rio de Janeiro: Lithographia do Instituto Philomathico, 1868). Erin Greb Cartography viii
4. Map 2. Brazilian provinces in the 1860s. Based on the Atlas do Império do Brazil (Rio de Janeiro: Lithographia do Instituto Philomathico, 1868). Erin Greb Cartography. ix
5. Map 3. The US Civil War in Brazil. Based on the Map of Brazil’s Hydrographic Divisions (including its territorial waters), 2021, IBGE. Erin Greb Cartography. x
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. African Lives and Grassroots Diplomacy 16
8. Chapter 2. Insurgent Abolitionism 47
9. Chapter 3. A Forgotten Battleground of the US Civil War 82
10. Chapter 4. Reading for Freedom 114
11. Chapter 5. Quilombos and the Politics of Emancipation 146
12. Epilogue. How the Enslaved Storied Their World 179
13. Notes 187
14. Index 235
15. Acknowledgments 245