From Africa to Brazil : Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600?1830.

By:

Hawthorne, Walter

Material type: Text

TextSeries: African StudiesPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139778923
1139778927
9780511779176
0511779178
9781139775885
113977588X
113978191X
9781139781916
9781316087725
1316087727
1139793306
9781139793308
1107253578
9781107253575
1283715767
9781283715768
1139777408
9781139777407

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Africa to Brazil : Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600?1830.DDC classification:

306.36209811

LOC classification:

HT1129.A426 H39 2010

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Contents:

Cover; From Africa to Brazil; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; AN UNDERSTUDIED DIASPORA IN AN UNDERSTUDIED PART OF BRAZIL; ORIGINS AND IDENTITIES; AFRICAN CULTURES IN AMAZONIA; THE CHAPTERS; PART I THE WHY AND HOW OF ENSLAVEMENT AND TRANSPORTATION; 1 From Indian to African Slaves; WHITE SETTLERS, INDIANS, AND MAMELOUS BEFORE 1750; AFRICAN SLAVE IMPORTS BEFORE 1750; MARANHÃO AFTER 1750; AFRICAN IMMIGRATION AFTER 1750; CONCLUSION; 2 Slave Production; GEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, AND SOCIETIES.

INTERIOR STATES, THEIR ELITES, AND SLAVE PRODUCTIONSLAVE PRODUCTION IN THE DECENTRALIZED COASTAL ZONE: RAIDING AND KIDNAPPING; SLAVE PRODUCTION IN THE DECENTRALIZED COASTAL ZONE: WITCHCRAFT TRIALS; THE ETHNICITIES OF THE SLAVES TRADED THROUGH BISSAU AND CACHEU; CONCLUSION; 3 From Upper Guinea to Amazonia; MOVING SLAVES FROM COASTAL VILLAGES IN THE ERA OF THE CGPM; THE PRACAS OF GEBA, BISSAU, FARIM, AND CACHEU; AFTER THE COMPANY; MIDDLE PASSAGE; IN MARANHÃO; CONCLUSION; PART II CULTURAL CHANGE AND CONTINUITY; 4 Labor over ""Brown"" Rice; EARLY ACCOUNTS OF RICE CULTIVATION IN THE LUSO-ATLANTIC.

RICE IN MARANHÃO AND PARÃ BEFORE THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURYRICE PRODUCTION IN MARANHÃO AND PARÃ AFTER 1755; MAKING FIELDS; PLANTING, HARVESTING, AND PROCESSING RICE AND COTTON; WORK'S PHYSICAL TOLL; THE CULTURAL AND GENEDERED DIMENSION OF LABOR; CONCLUSION; 5 Violence, Sex, and the Family; SLAVE FAMILY LIFE; IMPEDIMENTS TO AFRICAN FAMILIES IN MARANHÃO BEFORE 1755; IMPEDIMENTS TO THE FORMATION OF AFRICAN FAMILIES IN MARANHÃO AFTER 1755; RESISTANCE AND PUNISHMENT; CONCLUSION; 6 Spiritual Beliefs; ONE CREATOR, MANY SPIRITS; OFFERINGS TO AND FAVORS FROM SPIRITS.

POWERFUL THINGS AND POWERFUL SHRINESTHE INCORPORATIVE NATURE OF UPPER GUINEAN SPIRITUALITY; CHRISTIANS ON THE UPPER GUINEA COAST; RE-CREATING UPPER GUINEAN CORE BELIEFS IN AMAZONIA; CONCLUSION; Conclusion; Index; BOOKS IN THIS SERIES.

Summary: Traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil.

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Traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil.