The Many Faces of Slavery

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This essay reviews the following works: The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. By Luiz Felipe de Alencastro. Translated by Gavin Adams and Luiz Felipe de Alencastro; revised by Michael Wolfers and Dale Tomich. Albany: SUNY Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 606. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781438469294. Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific. By Yesenia Barragan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii + 326. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108832328. From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas. Edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Pp. x + 350. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826361165. Una historia de la emancipación negra: Esclavitud y abolición en la Argentina . By Magdalena Candioti. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2021. Pp. 272. Arg$3,892.00 paperback. ISBN: 9789878011134. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic . By Erika Denise Edwards. Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 168. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780817360313. Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition . Edited by Cécile Fromont. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. 224. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780271083308. Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana: State Slavery in Defense and Development, 1762–1835. By Evelyn P. Jennings. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 283. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780807173947. Africanos livres: A abolição do tráfico de escravos para o Brasil . By Beatriz G. Mamigonian. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2017. Pp. 625. R$74.90 paperback. ISBN: 9788535929331. The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic . By João José Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, and Marcus J. M. de Carvalho. Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 307. ISBN: 9780190224363. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. By Erin Woodruff Stone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 235. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780812253108.