De l’évolution de l’esclavage à Cuba by Jean-Pierre Tardieu

“…For José Agustín Caballero (1762-1835), the main obstacle to the economic development of the island of Cuba is to be found in the conservatism of the big landowners whose attitude towards slavery manifests ineptitude, hence a high dependence on the slave trade’s foreign capital, and, as a result, a great financial fragility. …”
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El anticapitalismo y sus aproximaciones al trabajo social brasileño: anunciando algunas controversias y concepciones by Kelly Rodrigues Melatti, Terezinha de Fátima Rodrigues, Maria Carmelita Yazbek

“…This presence is expressed through the organic linkages with social movements and struggles in a highly unequal brazilian society, marked by late capitalism, dependence, subordination, and reconfigured forms of colonial slavery in the shape of racist and patriarchal practices. …”
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“Here Lies the Possibility of Bodies Turning Elemental”: by Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang

“…I argue that Serpent Rain rejects this binary of erasure vs. contained representation in its treatment of slavery, enacting instead another type of (non)representation that moves beyond “the limits of most available narratives to explain the position of the enslaved” (Hartman and Wilderson 2023, 184). …”
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Acumulação primitiva: um processo atuante na sociedade contemporânea by Sandra Lencioni

“…Also, the debt slavery is emphasized as a violent form of spoliation, a form of primitive accumulation of capital in which the free worker, by mechanisms of subjection which he is subjugated, loses his freedom. …”
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Origens da segregação racial no Brasil by Reinaldo José de  Oliveira, Regina Marques de Souza Oliveira

“…The approach follows the historic route of the years 1890 to 1930, marked by major changes in the Brazilian and Latin American scene: in 1888, the abolition of slavery, the following year the proclamation of the Republic and more precisely in the first decades of the twentieth century, the metamorphosis of industrial urban society, focusing in Salvador, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. …”
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