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ISBN: | 9780804778558 0804778558 9780804774147 0804774145
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: | Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. This book explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that slavery in Brazil was hierarchical: slaves' fleeting chances to form families, work jobs that would not kill or maim, avoid debilitating diseases, or find a (legal or illegal) pathway out of slavery were highly influenced by their demographic background and their owners' social position.
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Other form: | Print version: Read, Ian (Ian William Olivo), 1976- Hierarchies of slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822-1888. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012
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