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People of faith : slavery and African Catholics in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Mariza de Carvalho Soares ; translated by Jerry Dennis Metz.
LIBRA HT1129.R53 S6313 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soares, Mariza de Carvalho.
- Series:
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
- Standardized Title:
- Devotos da cor. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- Africans--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Ethnic identity.
- Africans.
- Africans--Religious life--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Enslaved persons--Religious life--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Religious life.
- Religious life.
- Ethnicity.
- History.
- Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- From Ethiopia to Guinea
- Commerce with the Mina coast
- African "nations" and provenience groups
- Urban life and brotherhoods in the city
- Constructing a religious norm
- Conflict and ethnic identity among Mahi.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Devotos da cor : identidade étnica, religiosidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro, século XVIII (Rio de Janeiro : Civilização Brasileira, 2000).
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822350231
- 0822350238
- 9780822350408
- 0822350408
- OCLC:
- 707200534
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