Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

Author/Contributor(s):	Beattie, Peter M
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/07/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Peter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery.