The hierarchies of slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822-1888
By: Ian Read
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804774147
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Social status; Slaves; Social conditions; Slaveholders; Slavery; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Masters and their slaves. Neighborhoods and inequality; title: Material and demographic changes; title: Slave markets and networks; title: Slaves and their masters. Family, work, and punishment; title: Illness, recovery, and death; title: Pathways to freedom : manumission and flight; title: "Manumissionists," abolitionists, and emancipation.