New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1987). Originally published in French in 1979, this traces slavery in Brazil over 300 years - it places the slave in the center of the history not simply as a type of labor, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Foreword by Stuart Schwartz. Map, appendices, currency tables, bibliographies, index. xiv, 250 pp. ISBN: 0-813511550.