Summary: Abolishing Slavery In Brazil
Student: Eranda Dassanayake
Student #: 10022962
Instructor: David Parker
Course: HIST315
Date: Thursday April 18, 2013
Brazil was the last country in the western world to abolish slavery. The mass importation of Africans created an economic dependence on the employment of slavery. The slave-owner relationship consisted of relentless abuse and discrimination that Afro-Brazilians still carry today. As this abuse and exploitation of Afro-Brazilians escalated, and the rest of the western world, namely the United States, began abolishing slavery, it became important that Brazil employ abolitionist policy. The government, oligarchy, and overall leadership …show more content…
Considering that Brazil’s society was majorly anchored on the employment of slavery makes the fullest abolition of slavery very difficult. However, this was not the case everywhere in the country, especially in the years leading up to abolition. By this point the institution of slavery was greatly in decline due to the flood of European immigrants into the nation, and in particular Sao Paulo.10 The huge influx of European immigrants began at the beginning of this decade, and forced a dramatic change in the depths of Brazilian society. The ethnic landscape had noticeably changed, and the state was no longer solely dependent on the employment of slave labor. The abolition of slavery was eight years in the making and finally culminated in the Golden Law. This lack of dependence is clearly the most direct and driving cause toward abolition, which raises several questions about previous …show more content…
Blacks and Whites in Sao Paulo, Brazil 1888-1988. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Davis, Darien J. Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean. Toronto: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2007.
Davis, Darien J. Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc, 1995.
De Queiros Mattoso, Katia M. To Be a Slave in Brazil 1550-1888. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1979.
Goldstein, Donna. ""Interracial" Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin
Concepts?" American Anthropologist 101, no. 3 (1999).
Graham, Sandra L. House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio De Janeiro. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Klein, Herbert S. Slavery in Brazil. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Makabe, Tomoko. "The Theory of the Split Labor Market: A Comparison of the Japanese Experience in Brazil and Canada."Social Forces 59, no. 3 (March 1981): 786-809.
Nishida, Mieko. "Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888." The Hispanic American Historical Review 73.3 (1993): 365.
Student #: 10022962
Instructor: David Parker
Course: HIST315
Date: Thursday April 18, 2013
Brazil was the last country in the western world to abolish slavery. The mass importation of Africans created an economic dependence on the employment of slavery. The slave-owner relationship consisted of relentless abuse and discrimination that Afro-Brazilians still carry today. As this abuse and exploitation of Afro-Brazilians escalated, and the rest of the western world, namely the United States, began abolishing slavery, it became important that Brazil employ abolitionist policy. The government, oligarchy, and overall leadership …show more content…
Considering that Brazil’s society was majorly anchored on the employment of slavery makes the fullest abolition of slavery very difficult. However, this was not the case everywhere in the country, especially in the years leading up to abolition. By this point the institution of slavery was greatly in decline due to the flood of European immigrants into the nation, and in particular Sao Paulo.10 The huge influx of European immigrants began at the beginning of this decade, and forced a dramatic change in the depths of Brazilian society. The ethnic landscape had noticeably changed, and the state was no longer solely dependent on the employment of slave labor. The abolition of slavery was eight years in the making and finally culminated in the Golden Law. This lack of dependence is clearly the most direct and driving cause toward abolition, which raises several questions about previous …show more content…
Blacks and Whites in Sao Paulo, Brazil 1888-1988. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Davis, Darien J. Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean. Toronto: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2007.
Davis, Darien J. Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc, 1995.
De Queiros Mattoso, Katia M. To Be a Slave in Brazil 1550-1888. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1979.
Goldstein, Donna. ""Interracial" Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin
Concepts?" American Anthropologist 101, no. 3 (1999).
Graham, Sandra L. House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio De Janeiro. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Klein, Herbert S. Slavery in Brazil. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Makabe, Tomoko. "The Theory of the Split Labor Market: A Comparison of the Japanese Experience in Brazil and Canada."Social Forces 59, no. 3 (March 1981): 786-809.
Nishida, Mieko. "Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888." The Hispanic American Historical Review 73.3 (1993): 365.