Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: Celia M. Azevedo.
Series: Studies in African American history and culture
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States.; Abolitionists -- United States.; Antislavery movements -- Brazil.; Abolitionists -- Brazil.
Description: "First book-length comparison of abolitionist movements, based on published sources and secondary literature, argues that slaveholders' and slaves' different views in the two places stemmed from Americans' religious inspiration, Brazilians' location inside slave territory, and white Americans' respect for a vocal black community. The crucial difference was American push through abolitionism toward reconstruction, in contrast to the Brazilian single-issue focus on abolition. Narrower in analysis of Brazilian ideology than Azevedo's own pioneering book on 19th-century debates over labor and social control (see HLAS 52:2971), and doesn't fully confront revisionist arguments that Brazilian slave resistance, more than abolitionists, precipitated formal abolition"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-193) and index.