The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital

by David Baronov

The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313312427
• ISBN13: 9780313312427
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"