'This book is an invaluable contribution to the study of police and political control of the popular classes, mainly but not only Africans and Afrodescendants, in the largest slaving city of the Atlantic basin, Rio de Janeiro. It combines with originality a discussion of the end of the transatlantic slave trade, the decline of slavery, and the formation of an immense, modern prison complex aimed at maintaining seignorial dominion.' João José Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Introduction. The rogues' gallery; 1. The politics of slavery, race, nation, and prison building; 2. Confinement, labor, and citizenship; 3. Prison labor and the politics of slavery; 4. Disciplining children and engendering racialized citizenship; 5. Adelino Mwissicongo and the afterlife of emancipation; Conclusion. Slavery's punitive afterlife; Appendix.
