Kim D Butler

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

This article examines the ways in which black carnival clubs in Salvador, Bahia strategically used African themes and representations to negotiate social, political, and cultural space just after abolition in Brazil, which also coincided with the first years of the Republic. Contemporary newspaper accounts reveal a distinctly Bahian perspective on...

The trajectory from slavery to freedom is generally told in linear fashion, yet for thousands of Black people in the Americas, the last decades of slavery were a time of expanding bondage. In Brazil, an internal slave trade shifted over 200,000 people from struggling northeastern plantations to the south-central region, where commercial coffee agri...

Although it is commonly viewed as an African retention, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé was significantly reshaped during the waning years of slavery in the city of Salvador, Bahia. The changes in Candomblé may be considered part of the self-determination struggles of Afro-Brazilians who, in this case, constructed new forms of 'African' id...

Journal of World History 12.2 (2001) 485-488 Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion. An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800, Vol. 18. Edited by JUDY BIEBER. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997. Since the latter half of the twentieth century, historians have challenged the tendency to overemp...

Kim Butler is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Säo Paulo and Salvador (Rutgers UP, 1998), which won both the Wesley-Logan Prize for African Diaspora History conferred by the American Historical Association and the Letitia W...

Cet article examine la construction et l'utilisation d'une structure diasporique pour analyser l'histoire afro-atlantique pendant l'ère suivant l'abolition de l'esclavage. Il résume les résultats des recherches de l'auteur portant sur les cinquante premières années suivant la fin de l'esclavage au Brésil (1888-1938). L'utilisation d'une base diaspo...

Throughout the centuries of slavery in the Americas and the Caribbean, Africans and their descendants struggled against a social system that sought to reduce them to chattel. They found that their struggle was to continue, albeit in different forms, long after abolition. In Brazil, emancipation in 1888 was followed the next year by the demise of im...