Punishment in Paradise

Punishment in Paradise
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9780822375890
ISBN-13 : 0822375893
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Book Synopsis Punishment in Paradise by : Peter M. Beattie

Download or read book Punishment in Paradise written by Peter M. Beattie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil’s slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha—such as flogging and forced labor—stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil’s international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.


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