Enslaving connections : changing cultures of Africa and Brazil during the era of slavery

Curto, José C. (Added Author). Lovejoy, Paul E. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1591021537 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
323 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-310) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Africa-Brazil-Africa during the Era of the Slave-Trade / Alberto da Costa e Silva -- 2. "Slaves Are A Very Risky Business...": Supply and Demand in the Early Atlantic Slave Trade / Ivana Elbl -- 3. Slave Trading and Slave Traders in Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 / Manolo G. Florentino -- 4. Retention, Re-Invention, and Remembering: Restoring Identities through Enslavement in Angola and under Slavery in Brazil / Joseph C. Miller -- 5. Muitas Linguas: The Linguistic Impact of Africans in Colonial Brazil / Gregory Guy -- 6. "Not a thing for white men to see": Central African Divination in Seventeenth Century Brazil / James Sweet -- 7. Ethnicity and Family Formation among Slaves on Tobacco Farms in the Bahian Reconcavo, 1698-1820 / Linda Wimmer -- 8. Guine, Mina, Angola, and Benguela: African and Crioulo Nations in Central Brazil, 1780-1835O / Mary C. Karasch -- 9. Francisco Felix de Souza in West Africa, 1800-1849 / Robin Law -- 10. Afro-Brazilians of the Western Slave Coast in the Nineteenth Century / Silke Strickrodt -- 11. The Saga of Kakonda and Kilengues: Relations between Benguela and its Interior, 1791-1796 / Rosa da Cruz e Silva -- 12. Brazil and the Commercialization of Kongo, 1840-1870 / Susan J. Herlin.