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Record W4411137846 · doi:10.7765/9781526193049.00019

Slavery in Lusophone America

2025· book-chapter· en· W4411137846 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Carlos da Silva

Bibliographic record

VenueManchester University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicColonialism, slavery, and trade
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical science

Abstract

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The fourth section covers slavery in Brazil and the United States, as well as the contributions of female activists to anti-slavery efforts in the United States and Canada. The Brazilian historian Carlos Silva Jr examines slavery in Brazil, starting in the 1530s with sugar plantations in Pernambuco and Bahia. These events were characterised by the horrendous brutality of whippings by slave masters. Silva notes that 45 per cent of the enslaved between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries were transported by Portugal to Brazilian mines, plantations, and urban settings. He traces the history of the country to Portuguese colonialism in the sixteenth century, starting with the extraction of red wood called brazilwood. Lisbon had earlier enslaved Amerindian indigenous groups to work on sugar plantations. Facing resistance from the native population, Portugal imported African slaves from the sixteenth century. But Silva also notes the widespread resistance by the enslaved, many of whom created runaway maroon communities (quilombos). Brazil was the last state to abolish slavery in the Americas by 1888.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.957
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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