ISBN:
9780511779176
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxi, 259 pages)
Series Statement:
African studies 113
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3/6209811
Keywords:
Geschichte 1600-1830
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Geschichte
;
Slaves / Amazon River Region / History
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Slave trade / Africa / History
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African diaspora / History
;
Westafrikaner
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Sklavenhandel
;
Kultur
;
Sklave
;
Afrika
;
Guinea
;
Bundesstaat Maranhão
;
Amazonas-Gebiet
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Amazonas-Gebiet
;
Westafrikaner
;
Sklave
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1600-1830
;
Guinea
;
Bundesstaat Maranhão
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Geschichte 1600-1830
Abstract:
From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from 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. 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
Description / 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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511779176
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779176
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