Mariza De Carvalho Soares

People of Faith

Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350408
• ISBN-10: 0822350408
• Artikelnr.: 33622923

Autorenporträt

Mariza de Carvalho Soares is Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part One
1. From Ethiopia to Guinea 19
2. Commerce with the Mina Coast 40
3. African "Nations" and Provenience Groups Gallery of Illustrations 67
Gallery of Illustrations 101
Part Two
4. Urban Life and Brotherhoods in the City 113
5. Constructing a Religious Norm 146
6. Conflict and Ethnic Identity among Mahi 183
Postscript 223
Appendix 241
Notes 249
Bibliography 293
Index 309