Vol. 19 • Supplement • December 2012

INVITED EDITORS’ NOTE ANALYSIS Body, health and nutrition in the Brazilian Navy in the post-abolition period, 1890-1910 Sílvia Capanema P. de Almeida text in english Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin Elisée Soumonni text in english Dirt, disease and death: control, resistance and change in the post-emancipation Caribbean Rita Pemberton text in english Slave mortality during the cholera epidemic in Rio de Janeiro (1855-1856): a preliminary analysis Kaori Kodama, Tânia Salgado Pimenta, Francisco Inácio Bastos, Jaime Gregorio Bellido text in english The Atlantic demographics of Africans in Rio de Janeiro in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries: some patterns based on parish registers Flávio Gomes text in english A triumphant decline? Tetanus among slaves and freeborn in Brazil Ian Read text in english Illness and death: slaves in the city of Pelotas, 1870-1880 Beatriz Ana Loner, Lorena Almeida Gill, Micaele Irene Scheer abstract Slaves in purgatory: the Tucunduba Leprosarium (Pará, nineteenth century) Márcio Couto Henrique abstract Colonial universes and the ‘illnesses of blacks’, by royal surgeons Dazille and Vieira de Carvalho André Nogueira abstract Dangerous wet nurses: breastfeeding, science, and slavery in A Mãi de Familia  Karoline Carula abstract Pai Manoel, African healer, and medicine in Imperial Pernambuco Rosilene Gomes Farias abstract Slaves and citizens on Ilha Grande: the dawning of the Republic came slowly Eduardo Cavalcanti Schnoor text in english A morphology of ‘quilombos’ in the Americas, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries Manolo Florentino, Márcia Amantino abstract SOURCES A surgeon’s fees in court (Vila Boa de Goiás, 1801) Lena Castello Branco Ferreira de Freitas abstract RESEARCH NOTE The archeology of slavery on Jesuit fazendas: first research notes Luís Cláudio P. Symanski, Flávio Gomes abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Scrutinizing race relations review by Petrônio Domingues on Atitudes raciais de pretos e mulatos em São Paulo, by Virgínia Leone Bicudo text in portuguese The indeterminate question of race review by Kaori Kodama on Raça como questão: história, ciência, identidades no Brasil, by Marcos Chor Maio, Ricardo Ventura Santos (Org.) text in portuguese