Title: Freedoms given, freedoms won
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Blacks, Brazil, Race relations, Civil rights, Slaves, History, Social movements, Emancipation, Blacks, brazil, Blacks, politics and government, Sao paulo (brazil), Salvador (brazil), Slaves, emancipation, Blacks, civil rights, Brazil, race relations, Black people
Places: Brazil, São Paulo, Salvador, Salvador (Brazil), São Paulo (Brazil), Emancipation
LC classification: F2651.S2 B85 1998