M Dantas
Biographic Data
| ID | 204087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Dantas |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dantas |
| SIGNATURE | DANTAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2691-5033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola
Candido offers a critical revision of the history of African societies’ relationship to land use and rights. In the process, she delivers an insightful and fascinating narrative about the contested process of wealth accumulation underpinning the colonial dynamics of dispossession. Candido demonstrates her impressive command of the historiographies of pre-colonial and colonial Africa and the Portuguese Atlantic, as well as her deep familiarity and…
Jennifer L. Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery
A história urbana global
Apresentação do Dossiê "História Urbana Global
Femmes africaines, hommes portugais et familles coloniales soutenant un empire
Dans The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move, A. J. R. Russell-Wood note que l'expansion et le fonctionnement de l'empire Portugais au début de la période moderne étaient le produit de la migration et de l'établissement des hommes portugais en Asie, en Afrique et dans les Amériques. Il ajoute que cette histoire était aussi le résultat des circulations, à la fois volontaires et forcées, d'un continent à l'autre ou internes à la colon…
Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery
John Garrison Marks opens Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery by introducing us to Manuel Herrera and Jehu Jones. Herrera was a shoemaker and member of the voluntary militia in Cartagena, an important port city in Spanish South America in what would later be independent Colombia. He was also a free man of African and European ancestry living in a society invested in the enslavement of and discrimination against people of African descent. Jones wa…
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
In 1760, Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, knowing that she was suffering from a life-threatening disease, made the necessary preparations for her death. Brito registered a will, where she identified herself as a native of the Coast of Mina, in Africa. She also revealed that her owner “mercifully” freed her and her husband, “for which reason they married each other,” and that the couple had built a modest estate through gold mining. Finally, Brito decla…
Digging down into the global urban past
In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early mod…
Families, Manumission, and Freed People in Urban Minas Gerais in the Era of Atlantic Abolitionism
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Minas Gerais was heavily reliant on its slave labor force and invested in the social order shaped by slavery. The main systematic challenge to slavery was discrete negotiations of manumission that resulted in the freedom of a few individual slaves. This practice fueled the expansion of a free population of African descendants, who congregated most visibly in the captaincy's urban centers. Through an e…
The Urban and the Global in the Early Modern Period in a Comparative Perspective
This dossier argues that the historical phenomena of the urban and the global have interacted in a dialogical fashion: urban dynamics sustained the creation of a modern and globally connected world while the global movement of people, goods, ideas, and practices helped to define urban realities and ideals. The perspective that emphasizes the interconnection between the city and globalization-the global city-is prevalent in urban studies that focu…
Africanos Livres
Archaeometric contributions to agropastoral production research in Aguada society (Ambato Valley, Catamarca)
Alex Borucki. From Shipmates to Soldiers
Histories of the African diaspora during the Atlantic slave trade have often ignored the Río de la Plata region. Similarly, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the region’s two port cities, rarely appear in works about urban slavery in the Americas, such as the edited volume Black Urban Atlantic (2013) by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury. Alex Borucki corrects that omission in From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identit…
Picturing Families between Black and White
During the eighteenth century, the Rodrigues da Cruz and the Vieira da Costa families rose to relative prominence in the comarca of Rio das Velhas, a judicial district of the captaincy of Minas Gerais (Figure 1). Both families had as their patriarch a wealthy Portuguese man whose fortune was built on the gold-mining industry that dominated the regional economy in the early part of the century. Both families were also the product of relationships …
Mulheres e Mães Negras
Esse artigo examina a mobilidade social de pessoas de ascendência africana na vila e termo de Sabará, Minas Gerais, no século XVIII, a partir do questionamento da possibilidade de ascenção social disponíveis a mulheres negras e seus descendentes. Através da análise de documentos cartoriais (inventários, testamentos, escrituras de venda, etc.) e documentos da Câmara Municipal de Sabará, esse estudo investiga as oportunidades de sucesso econômico d…
Narrating the Early Modern American City
Succession of Property, Sales of Meação, and the Economic Empowerment of Widows of African Descent in Colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil
Although Portuguese laws protected women's right to property, the process of succession that followed a husband's death in colonial Minas Gerais often threatened women's economic well-being. Widows of African descent, moreover, were regularly denied custody of their children, having to defer to court-appointed guardians in matters regarding their property and education. In this context, some couples contracted the sale of the dying spouse's meaçã…
Llamas in the Cornfield
We report a study of the organisation of camelid production at the Ambato Valley, northern Argentine Andes, between the 6th and 11th centuriesad. We aim to contribute to the understanding of the different modes of economic production adopted in the past within non-egalitarian social contexts.In view of this, information collected from previous studies is analysed from multiple perspectives, centering on the application of different analytical tec…
Mariza DE Carvalho Soares. People of Faith
The field of African diaspora studies has often struggled with questions of cultural and identity formation in New World societies. The once popular approach of tracing New World practices and identities back to a distinct African ethnic or cultural origin has increasingly lost its appeal for scholars. Instead, recent studies have favored a more dynamic understanding of culture and identity, one that emphasizes the role that encounters and exchan…
Hirelings
Jennifer Hull Dorsey has set out to write a book that, in her own words, “is meant to fill an inexplicable gap in African American studies as well as the history of the early republic”: the history of African American laborers after the “first emancipation” (the early republic manumissions), when slaves were made into wage laborers (p. ix). She dutifully recognizes a few studies that address this particular history (with some important omissions)…
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
Book Review| October 01 2009 The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, Laird W. Bergad. Mariana L. R. Dantas Mariana L. R. Dantas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 29 (1): 100–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543583 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
Black Townsmen
Journal Article Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas. By Mariana L. R. Dantas. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 280 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7576-8.) Get access Graham Russell Gao Hodges Graham Russell Gao Hodges Colgate UniversityHamilton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 191–192, …
Manumission Practices and the Negotiation of Labor
T he rising number of free blacks in Maryland in the early eighteenth century led two residents of the colony to propose a law in 1715 prohibiting slave owners from manumitting their slaves. Members of the assembly contended, however, that it would be “hard to restrain any master or Owner to sett free any well deserving Negro or Molatto Slave, for probity in such Persons is by that means discouraged, no master or Owner being at Liberty Otherwise …
The Urban Slave Population in Baltimore and Sabará
I n 1761, Edward Cook, recently arrived in Baltimore Town, wrote to his brother John Cook in England describing the labor situation in the region. Interested in exploring the promising business of wheat production and trade, Edward Cook was concerned about the labor options available to him. He informed his brother that servants were “hard to be got. Convicts you pay ... from £ 12 to £ 15 sterling for seven years of servitude. Negroes from £ 40 t…
The Urban Slave Labor Force
I n 1749, Tomé Gomes Moreira, member of the Portuguese Overseas Council, presented to his fellow councilors a detailed report on the inadequacies and evils of the capitação . Calculated on the basis of the number of working-age slaves owned by each tax payer, this per capita tax, as Moreira explained, was based on the erroneous assumption that “all slaves, of one or other sex, that live in Minas Gerais currently engage in mining activities.” 1 No…
Free Townspeople
W hen Inácia de Siqueira, a crioulct forra , died in 1753, the judge of the Orphans’ Court ordered the preparation of her inventory so that her property could be assessed, her outstanding debts paid, and her ten-year-old daughter’s inheritance, the legítima , as it was called, estimated and placed under the care of a court appointed guardian. According to her inventory, Inácia was the owner of a small house near the Sabará River. Described as poo…
Black Townsmen
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating
Llamas in the Cornfield
We report a study of the organisation of camelid production at the Ambato Valley, northern Argentine Andes, between the 6th and 11th centuriesad. We aim to contribute to the understanding of the different modes of economic production adopted in the past within non-egalitarian social contexts.In view of this, information collected from previous studies is analysed from multiple perspectives, centering on the application of different analytical tec…
Succession of Property, Sales of Meação, and the Economic Empowerment of Widows of African Descent in Colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil
Although Portuguese laws protected women's right to property, the process of succession that followed a husband's death in colonial Minas Gerais often threatened women's economic well-being. Widows of African descent, moreover, were regularly denied custody of their children, having to defer to court-appointed guardians in matters regarding their property and education. In this context, some couples contracted the sale of the dying spouse's meaçã…
Picturing Families between Black and White
During the eighteenth century, the Rodrigues da Cruz and the Vieira da Costa families rose to relative prominence in the comarca of Rio das Velhas, a judicial district of the captaincy of Minas Gerais (Figure 1). Both families had as their patriarch a wealthy Portuguese man whose fortune was built on the gold-mining industry that dominated the regional economy in the early part of the century. Both families were also the product of relationships …
Mulheres e Mães Negras
Esse artigo examina a mobilidade social de pessoas de ascendência africana na vila e termo de Sabará, Minas Gerais, no século XVIII, a partir do questionamento da possibilidade de ascenção social disponíveis a mulheres negras e seus descendentes. Através da análise de documentos cartoriais (inventários, testamentos, escrituras de venda, etc.) e documentos da Câmara Municipal de Sabará, esse estudo investiga as oportunidades de sucesso econômico d…
Families, Manumission, and Freed People in Urban Minas Gerais in the Era of Atlantic Abolitionism
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Minas Gerais was heavily reliant on its slave labor force and invested in the social order shaped by slavery. The main systematic challenge to slavery was discrete negotiations of manumission that resulted in the freedom of a few individual slaves. This practice fueled the expansion of a free population of African descendants, who congregated most visibly in the captaincy's urban centers. Through an e…
Digging down into the global urban past
In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early mod…
Archaeometric contributions to agropastoral production research in Aguada society (Ambato Valley, Catamarca)
For the Benefit of the Common Good
For the Benefit of the Common Good": Regiments of Caçadores do Mato in Minas Gerais, Brazil Mariana L. R. Dantas In 1754 the residents of the municipality of Sabará petitioned the king of Portugal for more permissive laws regarding weapons possession. They argued that they required better means to defend themselves from the threat posed by runaway slaves. During the first half of the eighteenth century colonial officials, following the Crown's or…
Hirelings
Jennifer Hull Dorsey has set out to write a book that, in her own words, “is meant to fill an inexplicable gap in African American studies as well as the history of the early republic”: the history of African American laborers after the “first emancipation” (the early republic manumissions), when slaves were made into wage laborers (p. ix). She dutifully recognizes a few studies that address this particular history (with some important omissions)…
For the Benefit of the Common Good
For the Benefit of the Common Good": Regiments of Caçadores do Mato in Minas Gerais, Brazil Mariana L. R. Dantas In 1754 the residents of the municipality of Sabará petitioned the king of Portugal for more permissive laws regarding weapons possession. They argued that they required better means to defend themselves from the threat posed by runaway slaves. During the first half of the eighteenth century colonial officials, following the Crown's or…
Manumission Practices and the Negotiation of Labor
T he rising number of free blacks in Maryland in the early eighteenth century led two residents of the colony to propose a law in 1715 prohibiting slave owners from manumitting their slaves. Members of the assembly contended, however, that it would be “hard to restrain any master or Owner to sett free any well deserving Negro or Molatto Slave, for probity in such Persons is by that means discouraged, no master or Owner being at Liberty Otherwise …
The Urban Slave Population in Baltimore and Sabará
I n 1761, Edward Cook, recently arrived in Baltimore Town, wrote to his brother John Cook in England describing the labor situation in the region. Interested in exploring the promising business of wheat production and trade, Edward Cook was concerned about the labor options available to him. He informed his brother that servants were “hard to be got. Convicts you pay ... from £ 12 to £ 15 sterling for seven years of servitude. Negroes from £ 40 t…
The Urban Slave Labor Force
I n 1749, Tomé Gomes Moreira, member of the Portuguese Overseas Council, presented to his fellow councilors a detailed report on the inadequacies and evils of the capitação . Calculated on the basis of the number of working-age slaves owned by each tax payer, this per capita tax, as Moreira explained, was based on the erroneous assumption that “all slaves, of one or other sex, that live in Minas Gerais currently engage in mining activities.” 1 No…
Free Townspeople
W hen Inácia de Siqueira, a crioulct forra , died in 1753, the judge of the Orphans’ Court ordered the preparation of her inventory so that her property could be assessed, her outstanding debts paid, and her ten-year-old daughter’s inheritance, the legítima , as it was called, estimated and placed under the care of a court appointed guardian. According to her inventory, Inácia was the owner of a small house near the Sabará River. Described as poo…
Shaping Urban Environments in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Maryland
By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Town of Sabará, in the Brazilian captaincy of Minas Gerais, and the city of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, had become important and well-developed urban centers within their respective geographical regions. Documents from this period reveal a picture of local urban life that was both vibrant and diverse. The Baltimore city directory published in 1800, for instance, provides evidence of a dynamic an…
Conclusion
The history of the early formation and subsequent expansion of the towns of Baltimore and Sabará reveals different stories of urban development in the eighteenth-century Americas. Located on the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore was created in 1729 by a town act with the express purpose of establishing a port in the region that could service neighboring tobacco planters. Though the expectations of its original founders were repeatedl…
A Free Urban Population and Labor Force of African Origin and Descent
W hen, in 1720, the Municipal Council of Sabará prepared the assessment list for the capitação de escravos (slave head tax), it recorded not only the number of slaves owned per household in the town and its precincts, but the number of forros (freed slaves) as well. Thus Izabel forra , a resident of the district of the Ponte da Igreja Velha (Old Church Bridge) was listed, a note next to her name indicating that she was the former slave of Salvado…
Black Townsmen
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
Book Review| October 01 2009 The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, Laird W. Bergad. Mariana L. R. Dantas Mariana L. R. Dantas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 29 (1): 100–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543583 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
Black Townsmen
Journal Article Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas. By Mariana L. R. Dantas. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 280 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7576-8.) Get access Graham Russell Gao Hodges Graham Russell Gao Hodges Colgate UniversityHamilton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 191–192, …
Hirelings
Jennifer Hull Dorsey has set out to write a book that, in her own words, “is meant to fill an inexplicable gap in African American studies as well as the history of the early republic”: the history of African American laborers after the “first emancipation” (the early republic manumissions), when slaves were made into wage laborers (p. ix). She dutifully recognizes a few studies that address this particular history (with some important omissions)…
Mariza DE Carvalho Soares. People of Faith
The field of African diaspora studies has often struggled with questions of cultural and identity formation in New World societies. The once popular approach of tracing New World practices and identities back to a distinct African ethnic or cultural origin has increasingly lost its appeal for scholars. Instead, recent studies have favored a more dynamic understanding of culture and identity, one that emphasizes the role that encounters and exchan…
Narrating the Early Modern American City
Succession of Property, Sales of Meação, and the Economic Empowerment of Widows of African Descent in Colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil
Although Portuguese laws protected women's right to property, the process of succession that followed a husband's death in colonial Minas Gerais often threatened women's economic well-being. Widows of African descent, moreover, were regularly denied custody of their children, having to defer to court-appointed guardians in matters regarding their property and education. In this context, some couples contracted the sale of the dying spouse's meaçã…
Llamas in the Cornfield
We report a study of the organisation of camelid production at the Ambato Valley, northern Argentine Andes, between the 6th and 11th centuriesad. We aim to contribute to the understanding of the different modes of economic production adopted in the past within non-egalitarian social contexts.In view of this, information collected from previous studies is analysed from multiple perspectives, centering on the application of different analytical tec…
Alex Borucki. From Shipmates to Soldiers
Histories of the African diaspora during the Atlantic slave trade have often ignored the Río de la Plata region. Similarly, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the region’s two port cities, rarely appear in works about urban slavery in the Americas, such as the edited volume Black Urban Atlantic (2013) by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury. Alex Borucki corrects that omission in From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identit…
Picturing Families between Black and White
During the eighteenth century, the Rodrigues da Cruz and the Vieira da Costa families rose to relative prominence in the comarca of Rio das Velhas, a judicial district of the captaincy of Minas Gerais (Figure 1). Both families had as their patriarch a wealthy Portuguese man whose fortune was built on the gold-mining industry that dominated the regional economy in the early part of the century. Both families were also the product of relationships …
Mulheres e Mães Negras
Esse artigo examina a mobilidade social de pessoas de ascendência africana na vila e termo de Sabará, Minas Gerais, no século XVIII, a partir do questionamento da possibilidade de ascenção social disponíveis a mulheres negras e seus descendentes. Através da análise de documentos cartoriais (inventários, testamentos, escrituras de venda, etc.) e documentos da Câmara Municipal de Sabará, esse estudo investiga as oportunidades de sucesso econômico d…
Archaeometric contributions to agropastoral production research in Aguada society (Ambato Valley, Catamarca)
Africanos Livres
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
In 1760, Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, knowing that she was suffering from a life-threatening disease, made the necessary preparations for her death. Brito registered a will, where she identified herself as a native of the Coast of Mina, in Africa. She also revealed that her owner “mercifully” freed her and her husband, “for which reason they married each other,” and that the couple had built a modest estate through gold mining. Finally, Brito decla…
Digging down into the global urban past
In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early mod…
Families, Manumission, and Freed People in Urban Minas Gerais in the Era of Atlantic Abolitionism
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Minas Gerais was heavily reliant on its slave labor force and invested in the social order shaped by slavery. The main systematic challenge to slavery was discrete negotiations of manumission that resulted in the freedom of a few individual slaves. This practice fueled the expansion of a free population of African descendants, who congregated most visibly in the captaincy's urban centers. Through an e…
The Urban and the Global in the Early Modern Period in a Comparative Perspective
This dossier argues that the historical phenomena of the urban and the global have interacted in a dialogical fashion: urban dynamics sustained the creation of a modern and globally connected world while the global movement of people, goods, ideas, and practices helped to define urban realities and ideals. The perspective that emphasizes the interconnection between the city and globalization-the global city-is prevalent in urban studies that focu…
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