Title: Faces da liberdade, máscaras do cativeiro
First published: 1996
Description: "Explores lives of blacks in last decades of slavery, based on letters of freedom issued in Rio Grande do Sul from 1858-87. A confused situation prevailed in the urban areas where status of 'free' and 'slave' overlapped; some, e.g., libertos, did not know their own status. This situation blocked development of a free labor market"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: History, Emancipation, Freedmen, Slavery, Slaves, Freed persons
Places: Brazil, Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: HT1129.P67 M6 1996