The People of the River Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia 1835 1945 1st Edition by Oscar De La Torre ISBN 1469643251 9781469643250

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ISBN 10: 1469643251

ISBN 13: 9781469643250

Author:  Oscar De La Torre 

The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945 1st Edition: In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship.

Prior to abolition, enslaved and escaped blacks found in the tropical forest a source for tools, weapons, and trade ― but it was also a cultural storehouse within which they shaped their stories and records of confrontations with slaveowners and state authorities. After abolition, the black peasants’ knowledge of local environments continued to be key to their aspirations, allowing them to maintain relationships with powerful patrons and to participate in the protest cycle that led Getúlio Vargas to the presidency of Brazil in 1930. In commonly referring to themselves by such names as “sons of the river,” black Amazonians melded their agro-ecological traditions with their emergent identity as political stakeholders.

 

The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction: Two Stories about Rivers, People, and Politics

Chapter One. After the Reign of Terror: Slavery and the Economy of Post-Cabanagem Pará, 1835–c. 1870

Chapter Two. Killing the Big Snake: Myth and History in the Trombetas River, 1800–1888

Chapter Three. I Do Not Buy My Freedom Because I Am Not a Fool: Environmental Creolization and the Erection of Communities in the Senzalas, 1850–1888

Chapter Four. Working Almost as Slaves? The Post-Abolition Brazil Nut Trade, 1888–1930

Chapter Five. Citizens of Tauapará: Landscape, Law, and Citizenship in the Senzalas, 1862–c. 1944

Chapter Six. The People of the Curuá River: Black Rural Protest and the Vargas Era in Amazonia, 1921–1945

Conclusion

 

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