Punishment in Paradise – Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth–Century …

Punishment in ParadiseRace, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony\nAuthor(s): Peter M. Beattie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822358305, 978-0822358305\nSynopsis\nThroughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazils slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha-such as flogging and forced labor-stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazils international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social c.