Bahia is a province of Brazil on its northeastern coast and is the size of the country of France. From the sixteenth century through the 1850s; at least 1.2 million African slaves entered Brazil through Bahia; many of those through the major port city of Salvador.Dale Graden's study is divided into four parts. He first examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia by 1851. International political pressures combined with internal slave resistance forced an abrupt decline in slave importations into the province. Second; he traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871; an unpopular war with Paraguay; and protests led by African Brazilian intellectuals.Part three focuses on the role of Candomblé; an African religion practiced among the Africans of Brazil; in ending slavery in the area. Slave resistance and committed abolitionists also helped to force the abolition of slavery in 1888. The final section demonstrates how former slaves worked to protect and retain their hard-won liberties.From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil adds to our understanding of slavery and emancipation in Brazil and in Bahia.
#2466769 in Books University of Missouri Press 2002-10Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .75 x 6.36 x 9.26l; #File Name: 0826214177158 pages
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Hit the Nail SquareBy James Cantrell...I first heard of Gottfried when a Jewish Neoconservative called him a 'self-hating' Jew. Leftist Jews and Neoconservative Jews call each other 'self-hating' Jews who know nothing about Jewish history; and both so label the Gottfrieds and Rothbards.Unlike journalistic popularizers of Neoconservative ideas that support the Managerial State in all its Big Brother growth; Gottfried is a scholar who writes not for the seventh grade reading levels of most recent college graduates but for others who also have the ability to follow ideas. If you think that Jonah Goldberg is intelligent and well read and writes well about complex issues; then Gottfried will be over your head.Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt is a must read for anyone wishing to know how and why we have come to have a centralized Welfare State that uses its powers to wage cultural war against middle American values and identities. All those who have a stake in that Big Government and profit by it if only to escalate themsleves at the expense of traditional values; small government-inclined middle America (Marxists; socialists; Feminists; Afrocentrists; Queer Theorists; Randians; Neoconservatives; military-industrial complex profiteers; soccer moms with good intentions; etc.) also have a vested interest in making certain Gottfried's ideas remain known only by a few who have looked outside the box as defined by the powers-that-be in the two political parties and in liberal academia and journalism.If you are unwilling to accept the consensus passively; you need to read; to purchase; both Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt and After Liberalism.42 of 44 people found the following review helpful. BrilliantBy Steve JacksonIn light of the depraved nature of American culture; it's easy for any second-hander to catalog a bunch of disparate events and ideas and package them with a littany of canned-bromides about "multiculturalism" and "political correctness." (As an example; I just read a story the other day about "ethnomathematics.") On the other hand; it takes a scholar to make sense of the intellectual trends that are dominating the Western world.Fortunately; the paleoconservative movement has such a scholar in Dr. Paul Gottfried. Prof. Gottfried focuses on trends such as "diversity;" "multiculturalism;" and "sensitivity" showing that there is a theology behind them. The Christian view of sin and redemption is replaced by a secular counterpart of "insensitivity" and psychological manipulation. Based on Prof. Gottfried's approach; the desire of the left (old left and neocon "right") becomes understandable. American foreign policy (which was historically based on the idea of American interest; however misguided at times) is now focused on fighting "intolerance." The love affair of the left with immigration likewise becomes understandable. What better way to apologize for your nation's alleged sins then slowly destroying your culture through a change in the population? This fact isn't lost on European conservatives; who - as Prof. Gottfried notes - realize that these new voters aren't likely to vote conservative.For some reason; the Jewish holocaust takes center stage in this new religion; in which both liberals and their alleged opponents seeks to draw lessons from this event. That nearly three million Poles died at the hands of the Nazis is ignored. Likewise; Stalin's murder of millions of Ukrainians in the name of egalitarianism gets short shift. Whereas people are put in jail for denying the Jewish holocaust; even mainstream publishers will print books downplaying Stalin's evils.Prof. Gottfried breaks from standard neoconservative and paleoconservative analysis by showing that although the "sensitizing" may be carried out by the managerial class; it appears to have substantial public support. The multicultural agenda has majority support in the United Kingdom; and perhaps close to that in the United States.This work follows upon Prof. Gottfried's AFTER LIBERALISM; which is also highly recommended.10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Authoritative; indispensable diagnosis of cultural illsBy R. J. StoveWhilst the observation is hardly original; it still deserves emphasizing: America's finest; most courageous university presses are the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries' nearest equivalent to those medieval monks who kept civilized scholarship's lamp burning while; outside the cloisters; Goths and Huns rampaged. Such presses have placed all of us who care for the life of the mind into an intellectual and moral debt that we have no chances of repaying. As a good example of what they can achieve - not just in terms of disseminating sharp and astute prose; but in conveying it via fine; clear; typo-free print on satisfyingly opaque paper - we need only examine MULTICULTURALISM AND THE POLITICS OF GUILT.This quietly and learnedly devastating appraisal of Political Correctness in all its forms is an authoritative - indeed; indispensable - survey of intellectual corruption; if not from China to Peru; then at least in Europe and the Western Hemisphere (by no means the United States alone). There should be no doubt about Paul Gottfried's expertise; breadth of reading; courtesy towards antagonists as well as towards allies; and diagnostic skill. His latest book is not cheap; but it represents very good value for money.
