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Previewing the June 2026--Special Issue: "Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Brazil"

Previewing the June 2026–Special Issue: “Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Brazil”

This special issue examines how Brazilian historians have engaged with legal sources to reconstruct the experiences of Afro-Brazilians and Indigenous peoples in nineteenth-century Brazil. Since the 1980s, historians of Brazil have been asking new questions about the workings of the law, achieving nuanced understandings of enslavement, freedom, and the ...
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