New frontiers of slavery / edited and with an introduction by Dale W. Tomich.

Albany : SUNY Press, [2016]

ix, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vassouras yesterday and today: revisiting the work of Stanley J. Stein / Dale W. Tomich -- Agency and transnational perspectives on the constitution of waged, unfree, and free labor: the role of mobility in the nineteenth century / Yann Moulier Boutang -- The discovery of progress in Cuba: machines, slaves, businesses / José Antonio Piqueras -- Antislavery and nationalism on the two sides of the Atlantic: in search of forgotten links between the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe / Enrico Dal Lago -- African labor in Guyana and the expansion of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed -- On the blurred boundaries of freedom: liberated Africans in Cuba, 1817-1870 / Inés Roldán de Montaud -- Plantation laboratories: industrial experiments in the Cuban sugar mill, 1830-1860 / Daniel Rood -- Slavery, frontier, and diplomatic relations: Brazil-Uruguay, 1840-1860 / Keila Grinberg and Rachel Caé -- Ruling the household: masters and domestic slaves in the Paraiba Valley, Brazil, during the nineteenth century / Mariana Muaze -- French travelers and journalists debate the Lei do Ventre Livre of 1871 / Claudia Santos.