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Book Review


Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas. By Mariana L. R. Dantas. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 280 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-7576-8.)
This finely constructed, exhaustively researched book combines older debates about urban and comparative slavery and freedom by comparatively examining the histories of blacks in Baltimore, Maryland, and Sabará in the Brazilian captaincy of Minas Gerais. Rather than ask how Africans adapted to urban environments, Mariana L. R. Dantas analyzes how they contributed to shaping a beneficial environment. She studies this process by looking at how slaves and free blacks defined demographic and economic growth, renegotiated urban labor, and occupied and owned land in the city. . . .
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