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

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hawthorne, Walter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:African Studies.
Temas:
Enslaved persons > Amazon River Region > History.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
African diaspora > History.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire.
Africains > Pays étrangers > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
African diaspora.
Slave trade.
Enslaved persons.
Afrikaner
Sklavenhandel
Africa.
Amazon River Region.
Brasilien
Guinea
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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