Walter Hawthorne is Associate Professor of African History at Michigan State University. He is the author of Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900 (2003) and has published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of African History, the Luso-Brazilian Review, Slavery and Abolition, Africa, the Journal of Global History, and the American Historical Review. Before joining the History Department at Michigan State University, he was a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont and Assistant and Associate Professor at Ohio University.
Introduction
Part I. The Why and How of Enslavement and Transportation: 1. From Indian to African slaves
2. Slave production
3. From Upper Guinea to Amazonia
Part II. Culture Change and Cultural Continuity: 4. Labor over 'brown' rice
5. Violence, sex and the family
6. Spiritual beliefs
Conclusion.
