He holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from Oberlin College (1965), with emphasis in Spanish Literature and in History; a Master's degree in Spanish and Spanish American Literature from The University of Wisconsin - Madison (1966); and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University, focused on Latin America, particularly Brazil (1976). He is presently a "Collaborating Professor" (participating primarily in research projects) in the Department of History of the São Paulo State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), having retired as full professor from that university in August of 2013. He also was employed as a "Visiting Senior Professor" in the History Post-Graduate Program of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), in Salvador, Bahia, from October, 2017, to the end of 2021. He has experience in History, emphasizing the Social History of Brazil and Africa, with research focused primarily on the following themes: the demography of slavery, the slave family, Central-African culture and slave identity, the iconography of slavery, and the Brazilian Empire. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Taking as its point of departure the ambiguities of the boundary between slavery and free labor and of the legal framework regulating labor relations, this project proposes to analyze situations and contexts in which different work regimes, rather than standing as dichotomous, coexist or even complement one another. The aim is not just to discuss intermediate cases between slavery and oth…
This project focuses on the way workers (enslaved or free, native-born or immigrants, men or women, whites, blacks or Indians) attributed political meanings to different aspects of their daily !ife, whether in the workplace or in spaces of sociability and leisure, for the resolution of conflicts with masters, employers or public authorities. The objective is to examine the process by whic…
The aim of this research is to investigate the experiences, worldviews and maternity practices of enslaved African women and their descendants, involving pregnancies, births, breastfeeding and raising babies and young children, in the coffee estates in Campinas, West of São Paulo during the 19th century. The project will seek to examine, in the sources and in the historiography, issues re…
This project proposes to analyze the representation of Africa, Africans and Afro-Brazilians in a set of selected literary works published in Brazil between the 1830s and 1870s. The objective is to investigate where Brazilian writers position themselves in the European debate of the first half of the nineteenth century about the capabilities of African and black people born in the diaspora…
Concerned about continuities and ruptures of the struggles for freedom and citizenship played by workers between the last decades of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, this postdoctoral research project chooses as conductive line the trajectory of Vicente de Souza, a "mulatto" teacher, physician, abolitionist, republican and socialist in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Written to int…
The expulsion of small farmers in frontier market by major export oriented slave masters is a classic subject in Brazilian historiography. Nevertheless, there are few studies of Social History which seek to address the issue, and fewer that try to focus the analysis on the perspectives and strategies of smallholders . This paper aims to do this, using the township of Campinas, SP , at the…
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This Doctoral Exchange Application for the University of York is part of the research for my doctoral dissertation. As a Ph.D. student, I research how small agriculturalists, producing mostly for the internal marked, managed to maintain their production in an expanding frontier despite the advance of sugar plantations over food crops. The place chosen for the study is the township of Camp…
The project for my internship at Rice is a continuation of my master's project, which has the same title. In my master's research, am investigating the experience of bondspeople brought to the city of Campinas - a plantation center in the "historical West" of São Paulo - through the internal trade in slaves that grew rapidly after the end of the traffic in Africans (1850) and reached its …
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