Freedoms given, freedoms won
Subtitle: Afro-Brazilians in post-abolition, São Paulo and Salvador
By: Kim D. Butler.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Blacks -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Politics and government; Blacks -- Brazil -- Salvador -- Politics and government; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Brazil; Social movements -- Brazil -- History; Blacks -- Civil rights -- Brazil; São Paulo (Brazil) -- Politics and government; Salvador (Brazil) -- Politics and government; Brazil -- Race relations
Description: Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won is the first book-length study devoted to understanding the political life of urban Afro-Brazilians in the aftermath of abolition. It explores the ways Afro-Brazilians in two major cities adapted to the new conditions of life after slavery and how they confronted limitations placed on their new freedom.

The book sets forth new ways of understanding why the abolition of slavery did not yield equitable fruits of citizenship, not only in Brazil, but throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.