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Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian GoldMining Region Slavery Gender and Social Control in EighteenthCentury Sabar Minas Gerais
Author: Kathleen J. Higgins
To studies of Brazilian slavery this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared with slaves who worked in sugar-cane and coffee-gr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780271032702
ISBN-10: 0271032707
Publication Date: 12/1/1999
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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