""Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region" John M. Sharp Stearns has established himself as

Stearns has established himself as the foremost historian of American emotional life

Despite its relative shortness

the book discusses the concepts of culture

and the scope of legitimate state action

and original maps

""Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region" John M. Sharp Stearns has established himself asTo studies of Brazilian slavery, this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared with slaves who worked in sugar cane and coffee growing areas. The interactions among masters, slaves, and royal officials were profoundly shaped by the