Colonial Slavery: An Abridged Translation

ISBN-13: 9780367434243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 268 str.

Bernd Reiter; Alejandro Reyes; Jacob Gorender

Opis

Jacob Gorender's (1922-2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English-language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes’ brilliant translation.

Recenzje

"This is a classic of Latin American Marxist thought. Originally published in 1978, the book uses the concept of mode of production and the conceptual instruments developed in Das Kapital to understand the organization of slave labor in Brazil and to seek 'laws' that explain in a more abstract way the structure and social reproduction in slavery societies of colonial America. It is perhaps the most emblematic book of Brazilian Marxism in the 1980s. An essential reading for anyone interested in the history of ideas and of Marxism in Latin America, O Escravismo Colonial continues to be revisited by Marxist authors today."

Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology, Universidade de São Paulo

"With this work Gorender affirms the original character of Portuguese colonialism in Brazil. The author demonstrates that slavery was the structuring mode of production in Brazil, resulting in the kind of social relations that make the country what it is today. A required reading for all those who seek to understand racial inequalities in Brazil and the slaveholding Americas."

Fernando Conceição, Professor of Communication, Federal University of Bahia

Spis treści

Part I: Fundamental Categories  1. Colonial Slavery: A Historically New Mode of Production  2. The Category of Slavery  3. The Plantation Form of Organization of Slave Production  Part II: Genesis  4. Portuguese Society and Overseas Expansion  5. Original Sources of Slave Labor Force  6. Aspects of the Establishment of Slave Plantations in Brazil  Part III: Specific Laws of the Colonial Slave Mode of Production  7. Introduction  8. Law of Money Income  9. Law of the Initial Investment to Acquire the Enslaved Person  10. Effects of the Law of Initial Investment to Acquire the Enslaved Person  11. Laws of the Rigidity of the Slave Workforce  12. Law of the Correlation between the Mercantile Economy and the Natural Economy in Slave Plantations  13. Socioeconomic Dynamics and Historiography  14. Categories Extraneous to the Concept of Colonial Slavery  15. Dualism, Integrationism, and Other Interpretations of History  16. Law of the Enslaved Population  17. Factors Opposed to the Growth of the Enslaved Population  Part IV: Territorial Regime and Land Rent   18. Territorial Regime in Slaveholding Brazil  19. Industrial Slave Rent and Slave Ground Rent  Bibliographic References