The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital

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David Baronov

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The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor relations were characterized by new forms of extra-market coercion that were explicitly linked to racial categories. Post-slavery Brazilian society is a classic example of this pattern. Working within the context of the origin of the wage labor category in classical political economy, Baronov begins by questioning the central role of wage-labor within capitalist production through an examination of key works by Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, as well as the historical conditions informing their analyses. The study then turns to the specific case of Brazil between 1850-1888, comparing the abolition of slavery in three Brazilian regions: the northeast sugar region, the Paraiba Valley, and Western Sao Paulo. Through this analysis, Baronov provides a critique of the dominant interpretation of abolition (as a transition from slave labor to wage labor) and suggests an alternative interpretation that places a greater emphasis on the role of non-wage labor forms and extra-market factors in the shaping of the post-slavery social order.

Author Biography:

DAVID BARONOV is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College. His previous academic posts have included Visiting Research Fellow at the Centro Investigaciones Sociales at the University of Puerto Rico, Senior Research Associate with CILDES (Centro de Investigaciones Laborales, Documentacion, Educacion de Sindicatos) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico Department of Sociology. His publications include Bibliografia Sobre el Movimiento Obrero de Puerto Rico, 1873-1996.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2000

Author

David Baronov

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

256

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780313312427

Product ID

5266341

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