Books by Jane-Marie Collins
“This book goes back to the same region where the slave rebellion took place in 1835. It’s by a British historian, Jane-Marie Collins, who worked in Bahia and it shows how enslaved women who were mothers used petitions to demand their own freedom and how motherhood played a role in the discourse that they developed. Even though it is an academic book, this book is important because it brings to light the importance of enslaved women in this region. Most of the books that deal with enslaved women focus on the region of Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo whereas she is focusing on Bahia. Her work intersects with the work of other historians who worked on enslaved women, but she is looking at an important region, and showing how motherhood mattered to enslaved women in Brazil, in particular in Bahia.” Read more...
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo, Historian
Interviews where books by Jane-Marie Collins were recommended
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The Last Abolition: The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868–1888
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Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
by Júnia Ferreira Furtado -
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Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
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The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
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Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888
by Jane-Marie Collins
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery, recommended by Ana Lucia Araujo
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery, recommended by Ana Lucia Araujo
The history of Brazil is closely connected with the history of the slave trade, with nearly half the 12.5 million enslaved Africans transported to the Americas ending up there. Ana Lucia Araujo, a historian at Howard University and author of Humans in Shackles, talks us through the books that shed light on that history and how Brazil’s past cannot be understood without also studying its connections with Africa.
