New frontiers of slavery / / edited and with an introduction by Dale W. Tomich.

• TeilnehmendeR: Tomich, Dale W., 1946-
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Vassouras yesterday and today: revisiting the work of Stanley J. Stein / Dale W. Tomich -- Agency and transnational perspectives on the constitution of waged, unfree, and free labor: the role of mobility in the nineteenth century / Yann Moulier Boutang -- The discovery of progress in Cuba: machines, slaves, businesses / Jose Antonio Piqueras -- Antislavery and nationalism on the two sides of the Atlantic: in search of forgotten links between the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe / Enrico Dal Lago -- African labor in Guyana and the expansion of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed -- On the blurred boundaries of freedom: liberated Africans in Cuba, 1817-1870 / Ines Roldán de Montaud -- Plantation laboratories: industrial experiments in the Cuban sugar mill, 1830-1860 / Daniel Rood -- Slavery, frontier, and diplomatic relations: Brazil-Uruguay, 1840-1860 / Keila Grinberg and Rachel Cae -- Ruling the household: masters and domestic slaves in the Paraiba Valley, Brazil, during the nineteenth century / Mariana Muaze -- French travelers and journalists debate the Lei do Ventre Livre of 1871 / Claudia Santos.