| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Afro-Latin America |
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Afro-Latin America.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Convicts' Gallery -- The Politics of Slavery, Race, Nation, and Prison Building -- Confinement, Labor, and Citizenship -- Prison Labor and the Politics of Slavery -- Disciplining Children and Engendering Racialized Citizenship -- Adelino Mwissicongo and the Afterlife of Emancipation -- Conclusion: Slavery's Punitive Afterlife |
| Summary |
Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population during the foundational period of Brazilian state formation and postcolonial nation building. Placing this penitentiary within the global debates about the disciplinary benefits of confinement and the evolution of free labor ideology, Martine Jean illustrates how Brazil's political elites envisioned the penitentiary as a way to discipline the free working class. While participating in the debates about the inhumanity of the slave trade, philanthropists and lawmakers, both conservative and liberal, articulated a nation-building discourse that focused on reforming Brazil's vagrants into workers in anticipation of slavery's eventual demise, laying the racialized foundations for policing and incarceration in the post-emancipation period.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Martine Jean is an independent scholar and historian of nineteenth-century Brazil, slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship in the Atlantic World |
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Print version record |
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Punishment -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Slavery -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Convict labor -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Prisons -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Citizenship -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
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Citizenship.
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Convict labor.
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Prisons.
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Punishment.
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Slavery.
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Brazil.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009289146 |
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1009289144 |
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9781009289108 |
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1009289101 |
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