From Africa to Brazil : culture, identity, and an Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1830 / Walter Hawthorne.
2010
HT1129.A426 H39 2010 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 15. Jan 2023
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Title
From Africa to Brazil : culture, identity, and an Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1830 / Walter Hawthorne.
Author
Hawthorne, Walter.
ISBN
9780521764094
0521764092
9780521152389 (pbk.)
0521152380 (pbk.)
0521764092
9780521152389 (pbk.)
0521152380 (pbk.)
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 259 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HT1129.A426 H39 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/6209811
Summary
"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.
"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.
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
African studies series ; 113.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.