Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony PDF
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Punishment in Paradise • • Peter M. Beattie •• •• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••• PUNISHMENT IN PARADISE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••• Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony Duke University Press Durham and London 2015 © 2015 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Minion Pro by Westchester Publishing Services Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Beattie, Peter M., 1963– Punishment in paradise : race, slavery, human rights, and a nineteenth- century Brazilian penal colony / Peter M. Beattie. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5816- 9 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5830- 5 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978- 0- 8223- 7589- 0 (e-book) 1. Prisons— Brazil—Fernando de Noronha— History—19th century. 2. Prisoners— Brazil—Fernando de Noronha. 3. Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)— History—19th century. i. Title. hv9594.f47b43 2015 365'.34—dc23 2014034850 Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of Michigan State University, Department of History, which provided funds toward the publication of this book. Cover art: Fernando de Noronha Island, 2008. Photo by Bruno Barbey. © Bruno Barbey / Magnum Photos. I dedicate this book to my wife, erica melissa windler beattie And to my son, aodhan windler beattie Th e two souls most responsible for my regeneration. Th e Idée Fixe So, long live history, voluble history, which is good at anything, and, getting back to the idée fi xe, let me say that it’s what produces strong men and mad men. A mobile idea, vague or changeable, is what produces a Claudius— according to the formula of Suetonius. A Project Th e need to regenerate him [Quincas Borba], get him back to working and having respect for his person was fi lling my heart. I [Brás Cubas] was starting to get a comfortable feeling, one of uplift , of admiration for myself. joaquim maria machado de assis, the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas Contents xi ac know ledg ments 1 introduction: Fernando de Noronha Island: Foil, Paradox, Paradise, or Inferno? 12 1. Getting to Know “Fernando” 23 2. “Th e Key to the Americas”? 48 3. Fernando de Noronha’s “Dark Twins”: Licit and Illicit Commerce 75 4. “Brothers of the Peak”: Prosopography of a Penal Community 101 5. Th e Jealous Institution and Brazilian Penology 124 6. “A Stench in the Nostrils of God”? Th e Material and Social Life of Exile 148 7. Crime, Confl ict, Corruption, and Cooperation on an Atlantic Frontier 177 8. Th e Treatment and Categorization of Slave Convicts in a Penal Archipelago 200 9. Of Captivity and Incarceration: Human Rights Reform in Atlantic Perspective 227 conclusion: Punishment in Paradise Foiled Again 241 appendix: Statistical Tables 259 abbreviations 263 notes 301 bibliography 327 index
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