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Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Escravidão e direito: o estatuto jurídico dos escravos no Brasil oitocentista (1860-1888)

2021; UMR ESPACE et UMR LISST; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/slaveries.4793

2540-6647

Pedro Jimenez Cantisano,

History of Colonial Brazil

On a primary level, Escravidao e direito (published in Portuguese) provides rich descriptions of Brazil’s 19th-century social and intellectual legal histories. Historians have extensively proved that, especially during the second half of the 19th century, Africans and Afro-Brazilians used the courts to obtain freedom, ultimately contributing to slavery’s demise. In relating dozens of judicial dramas, Dias Paes adds to this historiography, while opening windows onto a complex social world in w...