“Worthy of Freedom”: Abolitionist Discourse on Slavery, Freedom, and Imprisonment in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Jean, Martine

doi:10.1093/jsh/shx115

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“…However, factors on the ground also shaped Governor Cunha’s prison policy. As Jean (2019) has described in her work on Rio de Janeiro, “the prison served as an intensified microcosm of societal dynamics” (Jean, 2019: 680). Consequently, Governor Cunha’s reforms reflected and enforced existing colonial hierarchies, separating enslaved people from free individuals, and “white” women from pretas (black women) ( Boletim Oficial do Governo da Província de Angola , 1847b: 1-3, 1847c: 1-3).…”

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Slave “Corrections” in Luanda, Angola from 1836 to 1869

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2022

Punishment & Society

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This paper uses thousands of cases of imprisonment published under the police section of a weekly gazette entitled Boletim Oficial do Governo da Província de Angola to explore the connections between slavery and the “birth of the prison” in Luanda, the capital of the Portuguese colony of Angola between 1836 and 1869. It demonstrates that as the colonial administration gradually abolished the institution of slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, masters and mistresses sent thousands of captives to jail for “correction,” which could include imprisonment, beatings, and forced labour. By focusing on “correction” cases, this paper problematizes the dichotomy between pre-modern and modern types of punishment and demonstrates that the prison in Luanda reinforced the violence of the slaveholding class.

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Section: Liberal Penal Reforms and Degredo (Exile)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Slave “Corrections” in Luanda, Angola from 1836 to 1869

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2022

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“Worthy of Freedom”: Abolitionist Discourse on Slavery, Freedom, and Imprisonment in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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Slave “Corrections” in Luanda, Angola from 1836 to 1869

Slave “Corrections” in Luanda, Angola from 1836 to 1869

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