I'm very pleased to have contributed to this ambitious volume edited by Timo Schaefer (@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social). My own chapter considers the impact of coerced labour and vagrancy laws on Brazilian society in the wake of independence
The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 6d agoNew in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 'The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America' shows how ordinary people engaged with post-independence legal reforms, including ending slavery and expanding courts: https://bit.ly/4fyqape
