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'Brazil has one of the highest prison populations in the world -it comes third, after the US and China. Adopting a micro-global approach, Policing Freedom masterfully connects the history of prisons with the crisis of slavery and the transformations in labor regimes in the Atlantic world during the nineteenth century.' Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University 'In this tenaciously researched and haunting study of 'slavery's afterlives in punishment,' Martine Jean tells the stories of those confined in Rio de Janeiro's first modern-style penitentiary. Rio's Casa de Correção was an urban construction site, a social experiment, a warehouse of people, and ultimately, Jean shows, a crucible for post-abolition society.' Amy Chazkel, Columbia University 'This book is an invaluable contribution to the study of police and political control of the popular classes, mainly but not only Africans and Afrodescendants, in the largest slaving city of the Atlantic basin, Rio de Janeiro. It combines with originality a discussion of the end of the transatlantic slave trade, the decline of slavery, and the formation of an immense, modern prison complex aimed at maintaining seignorial dominion.' João José Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia

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Martine Jean is an independent scholar and historian of nineteenth-century Brazil, slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship in the Atlantic World. Her work has been published in many journals including Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Journal of Social History and Slavery and Abolition. This is her first book.

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