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From slavery to freedom in Brazil : Bahia, 1835-1900

Divided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area.
Print Book, English, 2006
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2006
History
xxviii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
9780826340511, 0826340512
64595873
1: 1850-51: two perspectives on the end of the international slave trade in Bahia
Suppression of the slave trade
"There are too many slaves in this port city of Salvador!": slave resistance and the end of the slave trade in Bahia
2: 1871: two perspectives on passage of the law of the free womb
War and peace: a first phase of abolition in Bahia, 1850s-71
Castro Alves
3: 1888: three perspectives on abolition in Bahia
Candomblé
A second phase of abolition, 1871-79
Liberation, 1880-88
4: 1888-1900: freedom
The aftermath