Book contents
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Afro-Latin America
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Part I Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
- 1 The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- 2 “Hellish Nurseries”
- 3 Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone
- 4 Motherhood Silenced
- 5 The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865
- Part II Bounded Emancipations
- Part III Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities
- Part IV Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
from Part I - Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Afro-Latin America
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Part I Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
- 1 The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- 2 “Hellish Nurseries”
- 3 Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone
- 4 Motherhood Silenced
- 5 The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865
- Part II Bounded Emancipations
- Part III Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities
- Part IV Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Some of the most innovative works in the field of Atlantic slavery in recent years focus on the geographic and conceptual frontiers of enslavement. Working within this historiographical framework, with the intention of furthering the discussion about the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil, we will consider here how cases that involved the enslavement of free people were criminalized and brought to court throughout the nineteenth century. The uneven results of these cases suggest that political choices limited both the application of Article 179 of the Criminal Code (which prohibited the enslavement of free people) and the law of November 7, 1831 (which prohibited the Atlantic slave trade).
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- The Boundaries of FreedomSlavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil, pp. 35 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022