The Ambiguous Effects of Fluency and Contingency: The Postmancipation In border Brazil (Amazon, 1888-1950)
Keywords:
Post-emancipation, Borderlands, Amazonia, Black rural communitiesAbstract
This article analyzes how the flexibility and the fluidity of social relations in the borderlands shaped Afro-Brazilian projects of freedom after abolition. Studying the case of Amazonia, it analyzes patterns of geographic mobility and mechanisms of access to landownership. Although census data suggests an apparent spatial stability, in reality there were patterns of supra-local mobility. In addition, informality in access to landownership facilitated the maintenance of the political strategies created by the black rural communities of Amazonia
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