Books by Júnia Ferreira Furtado
“This book is about a mining region, in the southeast of present-day Brazil, where there were gold and diamond mines. This was a very important region in Brazil during the mining boom of the 18th century. It’s the moment when the Portuguese started colonizing Brazil more broadly, because of the discovery of gold. Women who were born in Africa and their enslaved descendants were very important in this areas and although they were not miners, they performed work in the domestic environment and also sold food and provided resources to the cities. This story matters because it shows how enslaved women in these regions had social mobility through various means. They were sometimes able to buy their own freedom. In other cases, they were freed by their owners. In the case of Chica da Silva, she was purchased by a man who became her lover and, just after he bought her, he freed her.” Read more...
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo, Historian
Interviews where books by Júnia Ferreira Furtado were recommended
-
1
The Last Abolition: The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868–1888
by Angela Alonso -
2
Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
by Júnia Ferreira Furtado -
3
Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
by João José Reis -
4
The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -
5
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.
