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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soares, Mariza de Carvalho
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
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