People of faith : slavery and African Catholics in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro /
A historical account of how slaves taken from the Mina Coast (modern-day Benin) to Rio de Janeiro in the eighteenth century reconstructed their identities, partly through Catholic lay brotherhoods.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Portugués |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A historical account of how slaves taken from the Mina Coast (modern-day Benin) to Rio de Janeiro in the eighteenth century reconstructed their identities, partly through Catholic lay brotherhoods. |
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Notas: | 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. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780822394303 0822394308 |