For Land and Liberty addresses black rural communities' claims to land in Brazil. By analyzing the national quilombo (African-descent rural communities) movement to protect land rights, traditional practices, resources, and food sovereignty, Bowen offers readers new perspectives on rural movements, mobilizations, and resistance in Brazil.  Meer

This groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade, highlighting the agency of Africans in the quest for abolition. The book reveals how the legal debate on abolition was begun by Africans, not Europeans.  Meer