Ângela Barreto Xavier is a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. She has widely published on issues relating with questions of power and domination and the agency and subjectivities of subaltern people in the context of the Portuguese early-modern empire. Cristina Nogueira da Silva is Professor at the Law School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and researcher at its research center, CEDIS. Her main research areas are classical liberalism and citizenship in the nineteenth century, the history of the legal personal status in the Portuguese overseas territories, as well as the way legal concepts and institutions were used by enslaved and free subaltern people in the context of the Portuguese contemporary empire.Michel Cahen is a political historian of modern colonial Portugal and contemporary Portuguese-speaking Africa. He is emeritus CNRS Senior Researcher at the Centre ‘Les Afriques dans le monde’ (Sciences Po Bordeaux). His main interests relate to Marxism and nationalism, identity and citizenship, political identity at the margins, coloniality and globalisation.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesPrologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian WorldJoão José ReisIntroduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences?Ângela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel CahenPart 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries)Rômulo da Silva Ehalt2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea RegionJames Fujitani3 From Asia to LisbonFragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries)Patricia Souza de FariaPart 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de CéspedesSophia Blea Nuñez5 “Pública Notícia”Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century BrazilLisa Voigt6 Creolizing DeathAfro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian WorldMiguel A. Valerio7 Black MastersA Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, BrazilRobson Pedrosa Costa8 The Qurʾan in My NotebookSlavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, BrazilMichel KabalanPart 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)Silvia Hunold Lara10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and MemoryHebe Mattos11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of PortugalFernanda Domingos Pinheiro12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social MobilityCrosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840)Magdalena Candioti13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873Lisa Surwillo14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São ToméMarta MacedoPostface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and EmotionMichelle A. McKinleyIndex