{"id":43299,"date":"2015-10-17T01:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T01:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43299"},"modified":"2015-10-17T01:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T01:50:02","slug":"historian-broadens-narrative-of-slavery-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43299","title":{"rendered":"Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University<\/a>
\n2015-10-16<\/p>\n

Patrick Verel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph by Patrick Verel<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

In the United States<\/a>, the Civil War<\/a>, the Emancipation Proclamation<\/a>, and the Underground Railroad<\/a> loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it\u2019s a phenomenon unique to us.<\/p>\n

Yuko Miki, PhD<\/a>, assistant professor of history, wants to vastly expand that understanding of the system\u2014particularly its role in the South American nation of Brazil, which had the distinction of being the last country in the Americas to outlaw slavery in 1888.<\/p>\n

An expert in Iberian Atlantic history, Miki has looked at Brazil\u2019s<\/a> connection to slave trading firms in the United States, to slave traders in West Central Africa, and to British abolitionists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The picture of slavery as a national institution has been too small, she said. \u201cIt\u2019s very exciting to be able to look at the history of slavery in a more transnational way.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…\u201cI began to realize that in fact, the history of indigenous people in Brazil is very much a missing piece of history,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were enslaved and lived and worked alongside slaves of African descent until the eve of the 20th century. For too long we had presumed that African slavery had expanded into \u2018empty\u2019 lands, which in fact were indigenous territories.\u201d These histories, long separated, are in fact deeply connected.<\/p>\n

Bringing these stories to light now is important, she said, because they challenge enduring popular narratives in Brazil. In The Masters and the Slaves<\/a><\/em> (1946), for instance, sociologist\/anthropologist Gilberto Freyre<\/a> argued that the country is a \u201cracial democracy<\/a>\u201d\u2014composed of the race mixture between black, Portuguese, and indigenous people\u2014and because of that, there is no racial tension in Brazil.<\/p>\n

But just because people are of mixed race doesn\u2019t mean there was or is no conflict, Miki said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still important to look at the actual history of Brazil\u2019s black and indigenous peoples. You don\u2019t want to just look at the end result of a mixed society and celebrate it; but also look at how such race mixture might have occurred,\u201d she said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University 2015-10-16 Patrick Verel Photograph by Patrick Verel In the United States, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Underground Railroad loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[21442,21441,2652,4450,21440],"class_list":["post-43299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-fordham-news","tag-fordham-news-the-latest-from-fordham-university","tag-gilberto-freyre","tag-patrick-verel","tag-yuko-miki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43302,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299\/revisions\/43302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}