Slave Rebellion in Brazil
The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
João José Reis author Arthur Brakel translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Published:1st Sep '95
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This book is easily the best on its subject and is, by any standard, an excellent piece of scholarship and analysis. -- Eugene Genovese, Emory University
Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador.The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador.
In the course of explaining the causes and context of the uprising, Reis provides a fascinating social history of urban life and the African community in a city that was (and is) one of the most important centers of African culture in the Americas. -- Barbara Weinstein American Historical Review [A] fine English translation... It is 'local history' at its best-superior scholarship enriched by Joao Jose Reis's familiarity with the Brazilian documentation... The arguments advanced concerning the construction of ethnicity and how it shaped the rebel conspiracy make this book a significant contribution to Brazilian history and to the literature on African culture as it evolved in the diaspora of slavery in the Americas. -- Catherine Lugar History Slave Rebellion in Brazil is, in sum, a superb example of the very best recent Brazilian scholarship on slavery. Uniting careful research with a sophisticated treatment of issues related to race, ethnicity, religion, class, and collective action, it deserves attention not only among scholars interested in New World slavery, but also from an even wider audience. -- B. J. Barickman The Americas First-rate history. Book Notes
ISBN: 9780801852503
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 431g
304 pages