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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:34:00 PST
- Reply-To: Tom Lincoln <lincoln@IRIS.RAND.ORG>
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- From: Tom Lincoln <lincoln@IRIS.RAND.ORG>
- Organization: RAND
- Subject: Re: Dutch colony of Recife, Brazil
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- : Title: From slavery to vagrancy in Brazil : crime and social control in
- : the Third World / Martha Knisely Huggins. New Brunswick, N.J.
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- >That's a bit unkind, Tom (!)
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- >Richard Pennell, History NUS.
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- Not responsible for what people write... nor have I read it. There
- were reasons why slaves were kept illiterate and in ignorance that
- suited their masters... Once freed, that is not a very good background
- to make it in the world. I imagine that that is what the book is about.
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- In addition to the specific historical reference to the Dutch colony, I
- included this one because it pointed to an aspect of later
- turmoil...
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- One value of Melvyl is that it turns them up.
-
- Tom
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