To Be a Slave in Brazil

Katia Mytilineou de QueirÓs Mattoso (born Kyriacoula Katia Demetre Mytilineou ; Volos , 8 of April of 1931 - Paris , 11 of January of 2011  was a historian Greek-Brazilian, a specialist in Bahia's economic and social history (1750-1889) and in the social history of slavery in Brazil (1549-1888).Katia Mattoso was a professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and Bahia Federal (1963-1988), visiting professor at the Universities of Minnesota (1978), Paris IV (1982) and Columbia (1983). He was also visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge ( UK ). In 1988, he took the chair of History of Brazil at the University Paris IV - Sorbonne, of which he was the first holder. Teacher emeritus  of the same University, he is the author of several books, among which are: Bahia: the city of Salvador and its market in the nineteenth century (SÃo Paulo: Hucitec, 1978), Être esclave au BrÉsil, XVIe-XIXe siÈcles (Paris : Hachette, 1979; Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995), with editions in Portuguese ( Being a slave in Brazil SÃo Paulo: Brasiliense, 1982; 3.ed. 1990) and English (To Be a Slave in Brazil ,New Brunswick. , NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986; 7.ed. 2002), Family and society in nineteenth-century Bahia (SÃo Paulo: Corrupio, 1988) and Bahia, nineteenth century. A province in the Empire (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1992, 2.ed. 1994).

• Foreword by Stuart SchwartzPreface to the English EditionIntroductionPART 1: TO BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY1. To Be Sold into Slavery in Africa2. In Brazil: Merchandise like Any Other3. To Be Valuable MerchandisePART 2: BEING A SLAVE4. The African Adapts to Brazil and the Brazilians5. Solidarities6. Refuges and RefusalsPART 3: THE END OF SLAVERY?7. The Charter of Freedom8. The Mirage of Freedom9. The Manumitted Slave as Social IntermediaryAppendices:Will of Francisco Nunes de MoraesGlossaryCurrency TablesBibliographiesIndex

This book was published originally in French in 1979 and in Portuguese in 1982. Written without scholarly footnotes for a general readership, it is a deceptively simple book direct in its presentation, lacking a specialized jargon, and organized in an imaginative and interesting way. But it also is a volume that reflects some of the most recent and innovative research on the question of slavery. Putting aside the somewhat arid debate over the feudal or capitalist nature of the "slave mode of production" and the political aspects of the movement for abolition, To Be a Slave in Brazil presents an overview of Brazilian slavery which reflects the trend toward study of the slave community, religion, the family, and other features of the internal aspects of slavery. - Stuart B. Schwartz (from the foreword) This book was published originally in French in 1979 and in Portuguese in 1982. Written without scholarly footnotes for a general readership, it is a deceptively simple book direct in its presentation, lacking a specialized jargon, and organized in an imaginative and interesting way. But it also is a volume that reflects some of the most recent and innovative research on the question of slavery. Putting aside the somewhat arid debate over the feudal or capitalist nature of the "slave mode of production" and the political aspects of the movement for abolition, To Be a Slave in Brazil presents an overview of Brazilian slavery which reflects the trend toward study of the slave community, religion, the family, and other features of the internal aspects of slavery. - Stuart B. Schwartz (from the foreword)