A Black Jurist in a Slave Society : Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship /

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Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the 19th century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key - and conflicted - role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politi...

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Main Author: Grinberg, Keila (Author)
Other Authors: Weinstein, Barbara (writer of foreword.), McGuire, Kristin (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rebouças, Antonio Pereira, > 1798-1880.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Politics and government.
Lawyers.
Civil rights.
Citizenship.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Civil rights > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Lawyers > Brazil > Biography.
Brazil.
Bresil > Politique et gouvernement > 1822-1889.
Brazil > Politics and government > 1822-1889.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The world of Antonio Pereira Rebouças
  • Any pardo or preto can be a general
  • Defining the Brazilian citizen
  • A "guarantor" for the Brazilians
  • Terribly anarchic words
  • In the empire of property
  • Lawyers in action
  • At the edge of the civil code.

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