“As Terrifying as Unexpected”: The Bahian Sabinada, 1837-1838

Kraay, Hendrik

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“…For example, the Sabinada revolt (1837–1838), the Balaida revolt (1838–1842), and others had strong support from people of African ancestry. In fact, people of African ancestry were often at the center or played key roles in such revolts, including the radical attempts to overthrow the monarchy (Assunção, ; Kraay, ).…”

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Reflecting on the legacy of Brazilian slavery and reimaging Afro‐Brazilian agency

Miles¹

2018

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Reflecting on the legacy of Brazilian slavery and reimaging Afro‐Brazilian agency

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2018

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“…in every plaza and public places, all day and sometimes until late in the evening, struck the poor eyes and ears of those who tried to enjoy the beautiful celebrations'. And he imagined what a foreign tourist, a European 14 For the Sabinada movement, see Souza (1987) and Kraay (1992). The English traveller Gardner (1846: 78) wrote that the Sabinada began just after he left Salvador and that it was led by some whites but 'supported by the majority of the black population'.…”

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Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession, Bahia, 1808-18551

Reis

2005

Bull Latin American Research

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In this essay I will discuss some of the meanings acquired by black revelry under slavery. Given the restrictions of the available sources, I discuss above all the attitudes and the views of masters, policemen, journalists and politicians towards the batuque. For this reason I have chosen those festive manifestations which are more African or seen as such by these individuals. I intend to point out particularly what changed and what did not during the first half of the nineteenth century in attitudes towards the batuque, which here generally means black percussion music usually accompanied by dance.Keywords: slave revelry, nineteenth-century Brazil, repression and tolerance.The four million Africans transported to Brazil as slaves brought with them not only the physical energy to produce wealth, but also brought the religious, aesthetic and moral values to create culture. It is commonplace to talk about the African contribution to different aspects of Brazilian culture, but little has been produced to document the tense and often conflictual history of the formation of Afro-Brazilian culture (Tinhorã o, 1988(Tinhorã o, , 1998. This is an essay about a small piece of that history, about African drumming and dance (or batuque). However, I do not intend to identify the African origins of instruments, rhythms and musical forms; rather, I take African revelry as a window onto power relations under slavery in Bahia.Blacks were involved in all kinds of celebrations in Brazil during slavery. At white men's private parties, they figured as servants and often as musicians. They also participated in public festivities, whether civic or religious, segregated or mixed. Beyond this, they produced their own celebrations, which were far from identical. Some had more, and others less, African density. Those produced by black Catholic brotherhoods, for instance, included processions and masses as well as African drumming, dancing and singing. But there were also those celebrations that tried to 1 This article was written with the help of a research grant from the Brazilian Research Council, CNPq.

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Blinded Like a State: The Revolt against Civil Registration in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Loveman

2006

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The first reports of popular disturbances in connection with Decree 798, calling for obligatory civil registration of births and deaths in the Brazilian empire, surfaced in the early days of January 1852. In the ensuing weeks, men, women, and children from across the impoverished northeastern Brazilian backlands convened in small settlements and towns to protest the decree. Local authorities reported being forced to abandon their posts, fleeing from the “mass of ignorants,” who, armed with knives and stones, threatened violence against those who would implement the law. Disturbances were reported in at least thirty-one localities, with crowds estimated at one hundred to several thousand people.

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“As Terrifying as Unexpected”: The Bahian Sabinada, 1837-1838

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Reflecting on the legacy of Brazilian slavery and reimaging Afro‐Brazilian agency

Reflecting on the legacy of Brazilian slavery and reimaging Afro‐Brazilian agency

Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession, Bahia, 1808-18551

Blinded Like a State: The Revolt against Civil Registration in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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