Part ILaw, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire

1. 1The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

   Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Keila Grinberg

2. 2“Hellish Nurseries”: Slave Smuggling, Child Trafficking, and Local Complicity in Nineteenth-Century Pernambuco

   Marcus J. M. de Carvalho

3. 3Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone

   Ricardo Salles and Mariana Muaze

4. 4Motherhood Silenced: Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

   Mariana Muaze

5. 5The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865

   Keila Grinberg

Part IIBounded Emancipations

1. 6Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave

   Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado

2. 7Slavery, Freedom, and the Relational City in Abolition-Era Recife

   Brodwyn Fischer

3. 8Migrações ao sul: Memories of Land and Work in Brazil’s Slaveholding Southeast

   Robson Luis Machado Martins and Flávio Gomes

Part IIIRacial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities

1. 9Breaking the Silence: Racial Subjectivities, Abolitionism, and Public Life in Mid-1870s Recife

   Celso Thomas Castilho and Rafaella Valença de Andrade Galvão

2. 10The Life and Times of a Free Black Man in Brazil’s Era of Abolition: Teodoro Sampaio, 1855–1937

   Wlamyra Albuquerque

3. 11Political Dissonance in the Name of Freedom: Brazil’s Black Organizations in the Age of Abolition

   Ana Flavia Magalhães Pinto

4. 12“The East River Reminds Me of the Paraná”: Racism, Subjectivity, and Transnational Political Action in the Life of André Rebouças

   Hebe Mattos

Part IVAfterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition

1. 13The Past Was Black: Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery

   Daryle Williams

2. 14From Crias da Casa to Filhos de Criação: Raising Illegitimate Children in the “Big House” in Post-Abolition Brazil

   Sueann Caulfield

3. 15Slave Songs and Racism in the Post-Abolition Americas: Eduardo das Neves and Bert Williams in Comparative Perspective

   Martha Abreu