The article introduces Ilha Grande, a district in the municipality of Angra dos Reis, and describes its role within the subsistence market economy and the memory of slavery as found in the Angra dos Reis Civil Records. According to the Almanaque Laemmert, this district had the largest number of slaves in the municipality as of the 1870s. Most owners had few slaves, and the majority of landholdi...

Why did Cuba fail to become independent early in the nineteenth century, at the same time as most countries in Latin America? We will argue that economic and political incentives led the same segments of society that fought for independence elsewhere to prefer remaining a colony in Cuba. We show that economic conditions, slavery and a special relation with Spain TOGETHER led to the delay of ind...

Loic Wacquant applies Orlando Patterson’s seminal socio-historical work on slavery to compare historical conditions of African American enslavement to present conditions of imprisoned African Americans. Patterson argued that a condition of enslavement must meet the following criteria: natal alienation, violent subordination and general disshonorment. Wacquant breaks down the experience of Afric...

After the Dred Scott decision in 1857, Abraham Lincoln embarked on a public campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery in the federal territories. Lincoln’s opposition to Dred Scott was, however, bound up with a certain theoretical orientation that is often rejected in the general milieu of modern constitutional theory. Within the context of two recent revisionist accounts of slavery and Amer...

In this short response I will confine myself to rebutting Brown’s uses and interpretations of Smith rather than addressing the wider argument of the paper. I would note however that it is not uncontroversial whether slavery was economically more productive than employing ‘freemen’ (Smith certainly thought not), even though there was certainly profit to be made in the slavery business. This refl...

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