Enslaving connections : changing cultures of Africa and Brazil during the era of slavery / edited by José C. Curto and Paul E. Lovejoy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curto, José C.

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Brazil--Congresses.

Slavery.

Slave trade--Africa, West--Congresses.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Brazil--Congresses.

Black people--Brazil--History--Congresses.

Black people.

Brazilians--Africa, West--History--Congresses.

Brazilians.

Civilization.

History.

Brazil--Civilization--African influences--Congresses.

Brazil.

Africa, West--Civilization--Brazilian influences--Congresses.

Africa, West.

West Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2004.

Contents:

Introduction: Enslaving Connections and the Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery / Jose C. Curto, Paul E. Lovejoy 11

Section I The Luso-Brazilian Slave Trade

1. Africa-Brazil-Africa during the Era of the Slave Trade / Alberto da Costa e Silva 21

2. "Slaves Are a Very Risky Business ...": Supply and Demand in the Early Atlantic Slave Trade / Ivana Elbl 29

3. Slave Trading and Slave Traders in Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 / Manolo G. Florentino 57

4. Retention, Reinvention, and Remembering: Restoring Identities through Enslavement in Africa and under Slavery in Brazil / Joseph C. Miller 81

Section II Western Africans in Brazil

the Fluidity and Evolution of Identities

5. Muitas Linguas: The Linguistic Impact of Africans in Colonial Brazil / Gregory R. Guy 125

6. "Not a Thing for White Men to See": Central African Divination in Seventeenth-Century Brazil / James H. Sweet 139

7. Ethnicity and Family Formation among Slaves on Tobacco Farms in the Bahian Reconcavo, 1698-1820 / Linda Wimmer 149

8. Guine, Mina, Angola, and Benguela: African and Crioulo Nations in Central Brazil, 1780-1835 / Mary C. Karasch 163

Section III The Impact of Brazil and Afro-Brazilians Upon Western Africa

9. Francisco Felix de Souza in West Africa, 1820-1849 / Robin Law 187

10. "Afro-Brazilians" of the Western Slave Coast in the Nineteenth Century / Silke Strickrodt 213

11. The Saga of Kakonda and Kilengues: Relations between Benguela and Its Interior, 1791-1796 / Rosa Cruz e Silva 245

12. Brazil and the Commercialization of Kongo, 1840-1870 / Susan J. Herlin 261.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

1591021537

OCLC:

52539871