Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (review)
to negotiate better pay and non-monetary compensation under the contracting system that went into effect following abolition. In response, planters called upon colonial authorities to assure their continued access to and control of liberto labor by limiting their freedom of movement. Chapters 6 and 7 consider post-emancipation class formation among libertos. Sensing their inability to control liberto labor, planters instead sought to retain control over liberto behavior. Meanwhile libertos actively resisted the encroachment upon their freedom, in some cases by setting fire to the plantations. Such actions on the part of libertos reveal "internal conflicts in postemancipation society" (p. 194) that scholars have previously overlooked.