Del 121 - African Studies

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World

Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvRoquinaldo Ferreira,Roquinaldo (University of Virginia) Ferreira

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This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how Atlantic slaving transformed key African institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that predated and coexisted with Atlantic slaving and made them fundamental features of the Atlantic world's social fabric.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-03-20
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Studies
Antal sidor282
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107671447

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'With great historical imagination, Ferreira resurrects detailed stories of individuals who were integrally tied to the largest branch of the Atlantic slave trade. In so doing, he shows the limitations of analytical categories that historians have applied in slave studies. The world Ferreira describes was one in which commoners and elites alike constantly reshaped social and cultural identities to fit particular circumstances. His innovative 'microhistorical' approach charts a new direction for Atlantic history.' Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University and author of From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830