The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization |
The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization
University of California Press
January 2022 (Originally published 1986)
676 pages
Trim Size: 6.14 x 9.21
Hardcover ISBN: 9780520367005
Paperback ISBN: 9780520337060
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
Introduction by: David H. P. Maybury-Lewis (1929-2007)
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface to the first English-Language Edition
- Preface to the Second English-language Edition
- Translator’s Acknowledgments
- Author’s Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition
- I General Characteristics of the Portuguese Colonization of Brazil: Formation of an Agrarian, Slave-Holding and Hybrid Society
- II The Native in the Formation of the Brazilian Family
- III The Portuguese Colonizer: Antecedents and Predispositions
- IV The Negro Slave in the Sexual and Family Life of the Brazilian
- V The Negro Slave in the Sexual and Family Life of the Brazilian (continued)
- Plans showing Big House of the Noruega Plantation
- Glossary of the Brazilian Terms Used
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects