Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World

Angola and Brazil During the Era of the Slave Trade
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-107-67144-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 121, 282 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

Reihe: African Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferreira, Roquinaldo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An expedition to the kingdom of Holo; 2. Can vassals be enslaved?; 3. Tribunal de Mucanos; 4. Slavery and society; 5. Religion and culture; 6. Echoes of Brazil; Epilogue: 7. Rebalancing Atlantic history.

Über Autor(innen)

Ferreira, Roquinaldo
Roquinaldo Ferreira is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Virginia.