Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Rec ncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following