Enslaving Connections Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery

by Curto, Jose C.; Lovejoy, Paul E.

• ISBN13: 9781591021537
• ISBN10: 1591021537
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Humanities Press

Summary

This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known scholars deals with the important, but under-explored, topic of the transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil during the era of the slave trade (c. 1600-1850). Divided into three major parts, the collection focuses in the first section on the Portuguese-Brazilian slave trade. The second section examines the impact of western Africans on the making of colonial and post-independence Brazil. The final section explores the effects of Brazil and Afro-Brazilians on western Africa. This important volume of cutting-edge research and analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of slavery in the Americas.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction. Enslaving Connections and the Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery
José C. Curto and Paul E. Lovejoy	11	(10)
SECTION I: THE LUSO-BRAZILIAN SLAVE TRADE
1. Africa-Brazil-Africa during the Era of the Slave Trade
Alberto da Costa e Silva	21	(8)
2. "Slaves Are a Very Risky Business ... ": Supply and Demand in the Early Atlantic Slave Trade
Ivana Elbl	29	(28)
3. Slave Trading and Slave Traders in Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830
Manolo G. Florentino	57	(24)
4. Retention, Reinvention, and Remembering: Restoring Identities through Enslavement in Africa and under Slavery in Brazil
Joseph C. Miller	81	(44)
SECTION II: WESTERN AFRICANS IN BRAZILTHE FLUIDITY AND EVOLUTION OF IDENTITIES
5. Muitas Linguas: The Linguistic Impact of Africans in Colonial Brazil
Gregory R. Guy	125	(14)
6. "Not a Thing for White Men to See": Central African Divination in Seventeenth-Century Brazil
James H. Sweet	139	(10)
7. Ethnicity and Family Formation among Slaves on Tobacco Farms in the Bahian Recôncavo, 1698-1820
Linda Wimmer	149	(14)
8. Guiné, Mina, Angola, and Benguela: African and Crioulo Nations in Central Brazil, 1780-1835
Mary C. Karasch	163	(24)
SECTION III: THE IMPACT OF BRAZIL AND AFRO-BRAZILIANS UPON WESTERN AFRICA
9. Francisco Felix de Souza in West Africa, 1820-1849
Robin Law	187	(26)
10. "Afro-Brazilians" of the Western Slave Coast in the Nineteenth Century
Silke Strickrodt	213	(32)
11. The Saga of Kakonda and Kilengues: Relations between Benguela and Its Interior, 1791-1796
Rosa Cruz e Silva	245	(16)
12. Brazil and the Commercialization of Kongo, 1840-1870
Susan J. Herlin	261	(24)
Glossary	285	(6)
Bibliography	291	(20)
Contributors	311	(4)
Index	315