Brazilian Studies: Bibliography

Portuguese Exploration
 

Primary Documents

Brásio, António, Ed. Monumenta missionaria Africana: Africa Ocidental. XV vols. Lisbon: Agência Geral do Ultramar et al., 1952-.

Cortesão, Armando and A. Teixeira da Mota. Portugaliae monumenta cartographica. Lisbon: Comissão Executiva das Comemorações do Quinto Centenário da Morte do Infante D. Henrique, 1960-1962.

Greenlee, William Brooks.  The Voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral to Brazil and India, from contemporary documents and narratives.  London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1938.  

Leite, Serafim, S.J. Monumenta brasiliae. 5 vols. Rome: Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 1956.  

Levenson, Jay A. Circa 1492. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Ley, Charles David.  Portuguese Voyages: 1498-1663.  London: J.M. Dent, 1947.  

Velho, Álvaro. A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499. Trans. Ernest G. Ravenstein.  Hakluyt Society, 1st series no. 99. London: 1898; rpt. New York: B. Franklin, 1963.

Vespucci, Amerigo. Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci’s Discovery of America. Ed. and trans. Luciano Formisano. New York: Marsilio, 1992.  

Zurara, Eanes de Gomes. Trans. C. Raymond Beasley and Edgar Prestage. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Hakluyt Society, 1st series no. 95, 100. London: 1986-1899; rpt: New York: B. Franklin, 1963.

 

Secondary Sources

Alden, Dauril. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire, and Beyond, 1540-1750. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Bethencourt, Francisco and Diogo Ramada Curto, Eds. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Boxer, Charles R. The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440-1770. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

________.  The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825. New York: Knopf,  1969.

________. Four Centuries of Portuguese Expansion, 1415-1825: A Succinct Survey. Berkeley: University of California Press,  1969.

Brooks, George. Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.

Godinho, Vitorino Magalhães. L’économie de l’empire portugais aux xv et xvi siècles. Paris: École pratique des hautes etudes, 1969.

Mauro, Frédéric. Le Portugal et l’Atlantique: Étude économique. Paris: École pratique des hautes etudes, 1960.

Miller, Joseph. Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Rodney, Walter. A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800. New York: , 1970.

Rubiés, John Pau. Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Russell, Peter. Prince Henry “the Navigator”: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.  

Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.  

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Vogt, John. Portuguese Rule on the Gold Coast, 1469-1682. Athens, GA:  University of Georgia Press, 1979.

 

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Primary Sources

Borghero, Francesco. Journal de Francesco Borghero, premier mssionnaire du Dahomey, 1861-1865. Paris: Karthala, 1997.

Bouche, Pierre. Sept ans en Afrique Occidentale: La Côte des Esclaves et le Dahomey. Paris: Plon, 1885.

Conneau, Theophilus. A Slaver’s Log, or 20 Years’ Residence in Africa: The Original 1853 Manuscript. London: Robert Hale, 1977.

Duncan, John. Travels in Western Africa in 1834 and 1846. London: Frank Cass, 1968.

Jones, Adam and Peter Sebald. An African Family Archive: Correspondence and Other Writings of the Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo), Mainly from the Victorian Era.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Oliveira, Fernando. Arte da Guerra do mar. [1555]. Lisbon: Arquivo Histórico da Marinha, 1937.  

Ryder, A. F. C. “An Early Portuguese Trading Voyage to the Forcados River.” Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 1(1959): 300-321.

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. www.slavevoyages.org.

 

Secondary Sources

Alencastro, Luis Felipe de. O trato dos viventes: formação do Brasil no Atlântico Sul, séculos XVI e XVII. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000.

Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Curto, José C. Alcoól e escravos: O comércio luso-brasileiro do alcoól em Mpinda, Luanda e Benguela durante o tráfico atlântico de escravos (c. 1480-1830) e o seu impacto nas sociedades da Africa Central Ocidental.  Lisbon: Editora Vulgata, 2002.

Curto, José C. and Paul E. Lovejoy. Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2004.

Elbl, Ivanna. “The Volume of the Early Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1521,” Journal of African History 38(1977): 31-75.

Eltis, David and David Richardson, Eds. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Florentino, Manolo. Em costas negras: Uma história do tráfico de escravos entre a África e o Rio de Janeiro (séculos XVIII e XIX). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1997.

Harms, Robert W. River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Heywood, Linda, Ed. Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Kiple, Kenneth, Ed. The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of the Black People. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1988.

“Issue on the Trans-Atlantic  Slave Trade.” William and Mary Quarterly 66, no. 4 (Oct. 2009).

Law, Robin. The Oyo Empire, c. 1600-1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Oxford: Clarendon, 1977.

Law, Robin. The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750: The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society. London: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Miller, Joseph C. “The Significance of Drought, Disease, and Famine in the Agriculturally Marginal zones of Western Central Africa.” Journal of African History 23(1982): 17-61.

Miller, Joseph. Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Postma, Johannes. The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1600-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Thornton, John D. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Vansina, Jan. Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

Verger, Pierre. Flux et reflux de la traite des nègres entre le golf du Bénin et Bahia de Todos os Santos, du dix-septième siècle. Paris: Mouton, 1968.

The Colonization of Brazil

Primary Documents

Amado, Janaína, and Luiz Carlos Figueiredo. Brasil 1500: Quarenta documentos. Brasilia: Editora Universidade de Brasília, São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial, 2001.

Documentos relativos a Mem de Sá, Governador Geral do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca Nacional, 1906.

Leite, Serafim, S.J. Monumenta brasiliae. 5 vols. Rome: Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 1956.  

Léry, Jean de.  History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, otherwise called America. Trans. Janet Whatley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.  

Staden, Hans. Hans Staden: The True History of His Captivity, 1557. Trans. Malcolm Letts. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929.  

Secondary Sources

Alden, Dauril. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire, and Beyond, 1540-1750. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Coates, Timothy J. Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.  

Dean, Warren. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.  

Godinho, Vitorino Magalhães. L’économie de l’empire portugais aux xv et xvi siècles. Paris: École pratique des hautes etudes, 1969.

Mauro, Frédéric. Le Portugal et l’Atlantique: Étude économique. Paris: École pratique des hautes etudes, 1960.

Metcalf, Alida. Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.  

 

Amerindian Slavery in Brazil

 

Primary Documents

Leite, Serafim, S.J. Monumenta brasiliae. 5 vols. Rome: Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 1956.  
 

Secondary Sources

Eisenberg, José. “Cultural Encounters, Theoretical Adventures: The Jesuit Missions to the New World and the Justification of Voluntary Slavery.”  History of Political Thought 24(2003): 375-396.

Metcalf, Alida C. Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822.     Austin; University of Texas Press

Metcalf, Alida. Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.  

Monteiro, John Manuel.  Negros da terra: Índios e bandeiras nas origens de São Paulo. São Paulo: Editora Schwarcz, 1994.

Nazzari, Muriel. “Vanishing Indians: The Social Construction of Race in Colonial São Paulo.”  The Americas 57(2001): 497-524.

 

The Plantation Economy

 

Primary Documents

Antonil, André João. Cultura e opulência do Brasil. 2nd Ed. São Paulo: Edições Melhoramentos, 1976.

Conrad, Robert Edgar.  Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

 

Secondary Sources

Barickman, B. A Bahian Counterpoint : Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860. Stanford  Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Eisenberg, Peter L. The Sugar Industry in Pernambuco; Modernization Without Change, 1840-1910 [by] Peter L. Eisenberg. Berkeley, University of California Press [1974.

Follett, Richard. The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860. Louisiana State University Press, 2007.

Galloway, J. H. The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Galloway, J. H. “Tradition and Innovation in the American Sugar Industry, c. 1500-1800: An Explanation.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75, no. 3 (September 1985): 334-351.

Guerra, Ramiro. Sugar and Society in the Caribbean; an Economic History of Cuban Agriculture. With and Appendix by Jóse Antonio Guerra Y Debén. Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz. [Translated from Spanish by Marjory M. Urquidi. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1964.

Higman, B. W. “The Sugar Revolution.” The Economic History Review 53, no. 2. New Series (May 2000): 213-236.

Knight, Franklin W. Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century. Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1970.

Marks, Stephen V, and Keith E. Keith Eugene Maskus. The Economics and Politics of World Sugar Policies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1985.

Moreno Fraginals, Manuel. The Sugarmill: The Socioeconomic Complex of Sugar in Cuba, 1760-1860. Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New York, Monthly Review Press [c1976.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Sheridan, Richard. Sugar And Slavery: An Economic History Of The British West Indies. Impression. University of the West Indies Press, 2000.

Sitterson, J. Carlyle.  Sugar Country: The Cane Sugar Industry in the South, 1753-1950. Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 1953.

Taylor, Kit Sims. “The Economics of Sugar and Slavery in Northeastern Brazil.” Agricultural History 44, no. 3 (July 1970): 267-280.

 

African Slavery and Race in Brazilian Society

 

Primary Documents

Brásio, António, Ed. Monumenta missionaria Africana: Africa Ocidental. XV vols. Lisbon: Agência Geral do Ultramar et al., 1952-.

Leite, Serafim, S.J. Monumenta brasiliae. 5 vols. Rome: Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 1956.  

 

Secondary Sources

Alden, Dauril, and Joseph C. Miller. “Out of Africa: The Slave Trade and the Transmission of Smallpox to Brazil, 1560-1831.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (1987): 195-224.  

Degler, Carl N. Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Chicago:     University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Fernandes, Florestan. The Negro in Brazilian Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969 [1964].

Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-Grande & Senzala]: A Study in the     Development of Brazilian Civilization. Trans. Samuel Putnam. 2nd ed. Rev. New York:  Knopf, 1966.

Heywood, Linda, Ed. Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Karasch, Mary. Slave Live in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Mattoso, Katia M. de Queiros. To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Mintz, Sidney W. and Richard Price. The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

 

Slave Resistance

 

Primary Documents

Conrad, Robert Edgar.  Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

 

Secondary Sources

Bastide, Roger. Les religions africaines au Brésil; vers une sociologie des interpénétrations de civilizations. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1960.

Childs, Matt D. The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2006.

Costa, Emilia Viotti da. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009.

DuBois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2004.

Genovese, Eugene D. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the New World. New York: Vintage, 1979.

Gomes, Flavio dos Santos and João José Reis, Eds. Liberdade por um fio: Historia dos quilombos no Brasil. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996.

Greggus, David P. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 2001.

Kent, Raymond K. “African Revolt in Bahia.” Journal of Social History 3(1970): 334-356.

Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. Third Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Reis, João José, Ed. Escravidão e invenção da liberdade. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1988.

Reis, João José, Ed. Negociação e conflíto.  São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1989.

Reis, João José. Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Trans. Arthur Brakel. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Rodney, Walter. A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800. New York, 1970.

Rodrigues, Raymundo Nina. Os africanos no Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Nacional, 1932.

Rodrigues, Junius P., Ed.  Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Schwartz, Stuart B. “Resistance and Accommodation in Eighteenth-century Brazil.” Hispanic American Historical Review 87(1977): 69-81.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

 

Family Life

Primary Documents

Debret, Jean Baptiste. Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou séjour d’un artiste française au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu’en 1831. Paris: 1834-1839.

Koster, Henry. Travels in Brazil. London: 1816.

 

Secondary Sources

Besse, Susan K. Restructuring Patriarchy: the Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Borges, Dain Edward. The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
    University Press, 1992.    

Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-Grande & Senzala]: A Study in the  Development of Brazilian Civilization. Trans. Samuel Putnam. 2nd ed. Rev. New York:  Knopf, 1966.

Graham, Richard. “Slave Families of a Rural Estate in Colonial Brazil.” Journal of Social  History 9 (1976): 382-402.

Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York:  Pantheon Books, 1976.    

Kuzenesof, Elizabeth Anne. “The Role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: São Paulo 1765 to 1836.” Journal of Social History 13 (1980): 589-613.

_______. Household Economy and Urban Development: São Paulo, 1765-1836. Boulder:     Westview Press, 1986

Lavrin, Asunción, Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Lincoln: University of     Nebraska Press, 1989.

Lewin, Linda. Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in     Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

_______. Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy, Inheritance Rights, and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822-1889. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Metcalf, Alida C. Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822.     Austin: University of Texas Press

Nazzari, Muriel. Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in São Paulo, Brazil (1600-1900). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Pino, Julio César. Family and Favela: The reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Ramos, Donald. “Marriage and the Family in Colonial Vila Rica.” Hispanic American Historical Review 55(1975): 200-225.    

Seed, Patricia. To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choices, 1574-1821. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988)

Triner, Gail D. “Property Right, Family, and Business Partnership in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil: the Case of John d’el Rey Mining Company, 1834-1960.” Enterprise & Society 8 (2007): 35-67.

Popular Religion

Primary Documents

Brásio, António, Ed. Monumenta missionaria Africana: Africa Ocidental. XV vols. Lisbon: Agência Geral do Ultramar et al., 1952-.

Conrad, Robert E. Children of God’s File: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Debret, Jean Baptiste. Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou séjour d’un artiste française au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu’en 1831. Paris: 1834-1839.

Knivet, Anthony. “The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthonie Knivet, Which Went with Master Thomas Ca[ve]ndish in His Second Voyage to the South Sea, 1591.” In Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, Vol. 16. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906.

Koster, Henry. Travels in Brazil. London: 1816.

Livro da Visitação do Santo Ofício ao Estado do Grão-Pará, 1763–1769.  Intro. by José Roberto Amaral Lapa. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1978.

Pereira, Nuno Marques. Compêndio narrativo do peregrino da América (1728). 6th ed. Rio de Janeiro: Publicação da Academia Brasileira, 1939.

Primeira Visitação do Santo Ofício às partes do Brasil: Confissões de Pernambuco.  Ed. J. A. Gonsalves de Mello. Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 1970.

Primeira Visitação do Santo Ofício às partes do Brasil pelo licenciado Heitor Furtado de Mendonça—Confissões da Bahia, 1591–1592.  Preface by Capistrano de Abreu. Rio de Janeiro: F. Briguiet, 1935.

Primeira Visitação do Santo Ofício às partes do Brasil pelo licenciado Heitor Furtado de Mendonça—Denunciações da Bahia, 1591–1593.  Intro. by Capistrano de Abreu. São Paulo: Editora Paulo Prado, 1925.

Primeira Visitação do Santo Ofício às partes do Brasil pelo licenciado Heitor Furtado de Mendonça—Denunciações de Pernambuco, 1591–1595. Intro. by Rodolfo Garcia. São Paulo: Editora Paulo Prado, 1929.

Segunda Visitação do Santo Ofício às partes do Brasil: Denunciações da Bahia (1618—Marcos Teixeira). Intro. by Rodolfo Garcia. Anais da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 49 (1927).

Segunda Visitação do Santo Ofício às partes do Brasil pelo inquisidor e visitador o licenciado Marcos Teixeira: Livro das confissões e ratificações da Bahia, 1618–1620. Intro. by Eduardo d’Oliveira França and Sônia A. Siqueira. Anais do Museu Paulista 17 (1963).
 

Secondary Sources

Barry, Jonathan, et al. eds. Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Bastide, Roger. African Religions of Brazil. Trans. Helen Sebba. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Behringer, Wolfgang, Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History. Cambridge, 2004.

Caro Baroja, Julio. The World of the Witches. Tras. Nigel Glendinning. London: Pheonix Press, 2001.

Clark, Stuart. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

 ---., ed., _Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology, and Meaning in Early Modern Culture. Basingstoke, 2001.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. London: Oxford University Press, 1950.

Frey, Sylvia and Betty Wood. Come Shouting to Zion: African-American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. Trans. Samuel Putnam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Trans. John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

---. Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.

Hester, Marianne. Lewd Women and Wicket Witches: A Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination. London, 1992.

Hoornaert, Eduardo. A igreja no Brasil Colônia, 1550–1880. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1982.

Le Roy Ladurie, Emanuel. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

MacGaffey, Wyatt. “Dialogues of the Deaf: Europeans on the Atlantic Coast of Africa.” In Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era,” ed. Stuart B. Schwarts, 249-67. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Mandrou, Robert. Magistrats et sorciers en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1979.

Mott, Luiz R. B. Escrivadão, homossexualidade, e demonologia. São Paulo: Icone, 1988.

________. Rosa Egipcíaca: Uma santa africana no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasit, 1993.

Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Schwartz, Stuart.  All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Siqueira, Sônia A. A Inquisição portuguesa e a sociedade colonial.  São Paulo: Ática, 1978.

Souza, Laura de Mello e. The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and popular Religion in Colonial Brazil. Trans. Diane Grosklaus Whitty.  Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2003.

Sweet, James H. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. 4th ed. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.

 

Women and Gender

Secondary Sources

Benavides, Hugo O.  “Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic Unveiling of Colonial Desire,” Social Text 21, no. 3 (Fall 2003):109-134.

Besse, Susan K. Restructuring Patriarchy: the Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Brown, Kimberly Juanita. “Black Rapture: Sally Hemings, Chica da Silva, and the Slave Body of Sexual Supremacy,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 35, no.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2007): 45-66.

Caulfield, Sueann. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early     Twentieth-century Brazil. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.

Coates, Timothy J. Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Dore, Elizabeth and Molyneux, Maxine, eds. Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin     America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.

Fraunhar, Allison. “Tropics of Desire: Envisioning the Mulata Cubana,” Emergences 12, no. 2 (2002):219-234.

Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-Grande & Senzala]: A Study in the  Development of Brazilian Civilization. Trans. Samuel Putnam. 2nd ed. Rev. New York:     Knopf, 1966.

Gilliam, Angela and Onik’a Gilliam. “Odyssey: Negotiating the Subjectivity of Mulata Identity in Brazil,” Latin American Perspectives 26, no. 3 (May, 1999): 60-84.

Gilman, Sander. “Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature.” In Race, Writing, and Difference, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 223-261. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Goldstein, Donna. “‘Interracial’ Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?” American Anthropologist 101, no. 3 (Sept. 1999): 563-78.

Gordon, Richard. “Allegories of Resistance and Reception in Xica da Silva” Luso-Brazilian Review 42, no.1 (2005): 44-60.

Guimaraes, A. S. A. “Racism and anti-racism in Brasil: A postmodern perspective.” In Racism and anti-racism in world perspective, edited by B. P. Bowser, 208-226. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.

JanMohamed, Abdul R.  “Sexuality on/of the Racial Border: Foucault, Wright and the Articulation of ‘Racialized Sexuality.’"In Discourses of Sexuality from Aristotle to AIDS, edited by Domna C. Stanton, 94-116. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Kutzinski, V. Sugar’s Secrets Race and the Erotics of Nationalism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Kuzenesof, Elizabeth Anne. “The Role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: São Paulo 1765 to 1836.” Journal of Social History 13 (1980): 589-613.

¬¬_______. “Sexual Politics, Race and Bastard-Bearing in Nine-teenth-Century Brazil: A Question of Culture or Power?” Journal of Family History 16, no. 3 (1991):241-260.

Lavrin, Asunción, Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Lincoln: University of
    Nebraska Press, 1989.

Lilly Caldwell, Kia. “Racialized Boundaries: Women’s Studies and the Question of ‘Difference’ in Brazil,” The Journal of Negro Education 70, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 219-230.

Metcalf, Alida C. Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822.     Austin; University of Texas Press

Morgan, Jennifer. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
 
Nazzari, Muriel. Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in São Paulo, Brazil (1600-1900). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Pino, Julio César. Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Ramos, Donald. “Marriage and the Family in Colonial Vila Rica.” Hispanic American Historical Review 55 (1975): 200-225.    

Seed, Patricia. To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choices,     1574-1821. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Skidmore,T. Black into White: Race and nationality in Brazilian thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Skidmore, T. “Race and Class in Brazil: Historical Perspectives,” in Race, Class, and Power in Brazil, edited by P.M. Fontaine. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1985.

Young, R.J.C. Colonial Desire. London: Routledge, 1995.

 

The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade

Primary Documents

Allen, W. Plan for the Immediate Extinction of the Slave Trade. London, 1849.

Bonifácio, José and William Walton. Memoir addressed to the General, Constituent and Legislative Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, on Slavery!. London: Butterworth, Ridgway, Booth, and Wilson, 1826.

Brasahemeco, Ananias Dortano. Rights of Portugal, in reference to Great Britain and the Question of the Slave Trade. Two Volumes. Lisbon, 1840.

Cave, S. A Few Words on the encouragement given to Slavery and the Slave Trade by recent measures and chiefly by the Sugar Bill of 1846. London, 1851.

Nelson, T. Remarks on the slavery and the slave trade of the Brazils. London, 1846.

Rocha, José Justiano da, Inglaterra e Brasil: Trafego de escravos. Rio de Janeiro, 1845.

Sá da Bandeira, Bernardo de. O Trafico da escravatura e o bill de Lord Palmerston. Lisbon, 1840.

An Act to Carry into Execution a Convention Between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and Final Abolition of the African Slave Trade. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1827.

Case of England and Brazil and the slave trade, stated—by a Brazilian merchant—with Introduction and notes by an English merchant. London, 1851.

Systhema de medidas adoptaveis para a progressive e total extincção do trafico e da escravatura no Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Sociedade contra o trafico de africanos e promotora da colonisação e civilização dos indigenas, 1852.

 

Secondary Sources

Carrington, Selwyn H.H. The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810. Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Da Costa, Emilia Viotti. The Brazilian Empire: Myths and Histories. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Marques, João Pedro. The Sounds of Silence: 19th Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

Needell, Jeffrey D. The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006

Needell, Jeffrey D. “The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade in 1850: Historiography, Slave Agency and Statesmanship.” In The Journal of Latin American Studies. Vol. 33, No. 4 (Nov., 2001): 681-711.

Vale, Brian. Independence or Death!: British Sailors and Brazilian Independence, 1822-25. London: Tauris Academic, 1996.

Wilcken, Patrick. Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821. London:
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The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

Primary Documents

Amaral, Angelo Tomás do. Lei de 13 de maio. Instituto do Caerá, Foraleza: Revista trimensal, 1890. New York: Reproduced on Microfilm.

Hasting, Charles Dent. A Year in Brazil, With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, etc. London: Kegan Paul, 1886.

Machado, Maria Helena Pereira Toledo, ed. Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865-1866. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Nabuco, Joaquim. Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle. Urbana: University of
    Illinois Press, 1977.

A Review of the Report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons on the State of the West India Colonies. Liverpool: E. Smith, 1833.

    
Secondary Sources

Azevedo, Celia M. Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective.   New York: Garland Pub., 1995.

Barbosa, José Carolos. Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil: “The Black does not Enter the Church, he Peeks in from Outside.” Lanham: University Press of America,  2008.

Barickman, B. J. “Persistence and Decline: Slave Labour and Sugar Production in the Bahian  Recôncavo, 1850-1888.” In The Journal of Latin American Studies. Vol. 28, No. 3,  Brazil: History and Society (Oct., 1996): 581-633.

Baronov, David. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The “Liberation” of Africans through the Emancipation of Capital. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Bosl, Katharina. Die Sklavenbefreiung in Brasilien, eine soziale Frage feur die Kirche: Die Katholische Kirche und das Ende der Sklaverei in der Kaffeeprovinz Sao Paulo, 1871-1888. Stuttgart: H-D Heinz, 1999.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850-1888. Berkeley: University of  California Press, 1972.

Drescher, Seymour. From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Houndmills and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Drescher, Seymour. “Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective.” In The Hispanic American Historical Review. Vol. 68, No. 3 (Aug., 1988): 429-60.

Schmitt, Jucelmo L. Die Lage der schwarzen Beveolkerung vor und nach Abschaffung der Slaverei in Brasilien. Bonn and New York: Scientia Bonnensis, 2008.

Schulz, John. The Financial crisis of Abolition, 1875-1901. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Toplin, Robert Brent. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil. New York: Atheneum, 1972.

Xavier, Regina Caelia Lima. A Conquista da liberdade: Libertos em Campinas na segunda Metade do saeculo XIX. Campinas: Centro de Memória, Unicamp, 1996.

 

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This bibliography was compiled by the students of Prof. Alida Metcalf.