Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgmentsand Spelling Conventions; 1 The Marvelous City and the New Navy; 2 The Rebellion and its Resolution; 3 The Rebels and Their Motives; 4 The Second Revolt and its Consequences; 5 Past and Present; Notes
Summary
This is the story of a spectacular naval rebellion in which ordinary Brazilian seamen (mostly black and led by a black sailor) overpowered their officers on Dreadnought-class battleships in 1910, to abolish flogging and secure civic rights; it also tells how the sailors suffered lethal retribution, although flogging would never return
