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From Africa to Brazil : culture, identity, and an Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1830

Hawthorne, Walter

Overview

\"From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. This study makes several broad contributions. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Slaves Amazon River Region History. / Slave trade Africa History. / African diaspora History.
• ISBN: 9780521764094, 0521764092, 9780521152389, 0521152380

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HT1129.A426 H39 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE