The Revolt of the Whip
Joseph LeRoy Love (Author)
"This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inauguration of Brazilian President Hermes da Fonseca, ordinary sailors killed several officers and seized control of major new combat vessels, including two of the most powerful battleships ever produced, and commenced bombing Rio de Janeiro. The mutineers, led by an Afro-Brazilian and mostly black themselves, demanded greater right--above all the abolition of flogging in the Brazilian navy, the last Western navy to tolerate it. This form of torture was closely associated in the sailors' minds with slavery, which had only been prohibited in Brazil in 1888. These events and the scandals that followed initiated a sustained debate about the role of race and class in Brazilian society and the extent to which Brazil could claim to be a modern nation. The commemoration of the centenary of the mutiny in 2010 saw the country still divided about the meaning of the Revolt of the Whip."--Publisher's website
Print Book, English, 2012
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2012
History
xiv, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804781060, 9780804781091, 0804781060, 0804781095
757838402
The marvelous city and the new navy
The rebellion and its resolution
The leaders and their motives
The second revolt and its consequences
Past and present