Arid Roads to Coercion
Labor Policies Devised During a Drought in the Year of Brazilian Abolition, 1888–1889
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6440535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felipe Azevedo E Souza, Felipe Azevedo Souza (0000-0002-6232-3273) |
| Translators | Ramón Stern |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 6-27 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1547-6715 • E-ISSN: 1558-1454 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15476715-11609861 |
| OpenAlex | W4410843472 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In the same year that slavery was abolished in Brazil (1888), a severe drought devastated the northern province of Ceará, causing a serious humanitarian crisis. This article argues that debates surrounding the formulation of public policies to assist the thousands of refugees were influenced by the immediate postabolition context. The Brazilian imperial state denied humanitarian assistance measures and instead created an extensive structure of labor policies for refugees to access income and food. Thousands of people were sent under coercion to coffee and sugar plantations in the southern region of the country, while many others faced forced work on large state projects. Through research conducted in personal archives of state agents, it was possible to demonstrate how class and race criteria played a significant role in the articulation of these coerced labor policies, shedding new light on the ways in which unfree labor persisted after bondage
Arid · Biology · Coercion (linguistics · Economics · Political science · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History of Colonial Brazil · Philosophy · Ecology
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Capitalism and unfree labor
The Boundaries of Freedom
On Coerced Labor
Freedom for Too Few
Uma "revolução" dos retirantes
A piedade e a força
Rethinking Slavery's Abolition in Ceará Through an Engagement with maritime Marronage
Huguenotes, ingleses, abacaxis
A seca de 1877-1879 no Império do Brasil
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |