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Author Beattie, Peter M., 1963- author.

Title Punishment in paradise : race, slavery, human rights, and a nineteenth-century Brazilian penal colony / Peter M. Beattie
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Fernando de Noronha Island: foil, paradox, paradise, or inferno? -- Getting to know "Fernando" -- "The key to the Americas?" -- Fernando de Noronha's "dark twins": licit and illicit commerce -- "Brothers of the peak": prosopography of a penal community -- The jealous institution and Brazilian penology -- "A stench in the nostrils of god?". The material and social life of exile -- Crime, conflict, corruption, and cooperation on an Atlantic frontier -- The treatment and categorization of slave convicts in a penal archipelago -- Of captivity and incarceration: human rights reform in Atlantic perspective -- Punishment in paradise foiled again
Summary Peter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index
Notes English
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Subject Prisons -- Brazil -- Fernando de Noronha -- History -- 19th century
Prisoners -- Brazil -- Fernando de Noronha
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Prisoners
Prisons
Gefängnis
Arbeitslager
Menschenrecht
SUBJECT Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Brazil -- Fernando de Noronha
Brasilien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014034850
ISBN 9780822375890
0822375893