Until the Day of His Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4053074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henrique Espada Lima (0000-0002-5815-194X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 139 |
| Pages | 52-74 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-8822602 |
| OpenAlex | W3121876247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article examines postmortem inventories and notarial records from Brazilian slaveholders in southern Brazil in the nineteenth century. By discussing selected cases in detail, it investigates the relationship between "precarious masters" (especially the poor and/or disabled, widows without family, and single elderly slaveholding women and men) and their slaves and former slaves to whom they bequeathed, in their testaments and final wills, manumission and property. The article reads these documents as intergenerational contractual arrangements that connected the masters' expectations for care in illness and old age with the slaves' and former slaves' expectations for compensation for their work and dedication. Following these uneven relationships of interdependence and exploitation as they developed over time, the article suggests a reassessment of the role of paternalism in Brazil during the country's final century of slavery. More than a tool to enforce relations of domination, paternalism articulated with the dynamics of vulnerability and interdependency as they changed over the life courses of both enslaved people and slave owners. This article shows how human aging became a terrain of negotiation and struggle as Brazilian slave society transformed throughout the nineteenth century
Bequest · Interdependence · Negotiation · Paternalism · Political science · Sociology · Status quo · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Challenges of Aging
Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
Caring for AmericaHome Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Caetana Says No
Fractional Freedoms
Precarity in late life
The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888
Dutra's World
The Locus of Care
A Bahian Counterpoint
Seizing Freedom
Freedom, Precariousness, and the Law
The Precariousness of Freedom in a Slave Society (Brazil in the Nineteenth Century)
Machado de Assis Historiador
Dutra's world
Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State
Entre a mão e os anéis
Aos pés dos pretos e pretas quitandeiras
Aos pés dos pretos e pretas quitandeiras
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |