Enslaving Connections
Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery
This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known scholars deals with the important, but underexplored, topic of the transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil during the era of the slave trade (c. 1600-1850). Brazil received more enslaved Africans (approximately 4.5 million) than any other part of the Americas—ten times as many as North America, and more than all of the Caribbean and North America combined. The forced shipment of millions of Africans to the Americas, where their enslavement became the basis of intense exploitation, profoundly influenced the development of the American societies that used slaves,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lovejoy, Paul E.
- ISBN: 978-1-59102-153-7
- EAN: 9781591021537
- Produktnummer: 23152404
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 324 S.
Über den Autor
José C. Curto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is assistant professor of history at York University, associate editor of the Portuguese Studies Review, and author of Alcoól e Escravos: O comércio das bebibas alcoólicas e o seu impacto em Angola durante o tráfico de escravos, c. 1480-1830 (Lisbon: Editora Vulgata, Colecção Tempos e Espaços Africanos, 2003).Paul E. Lovejoy (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is Distinguished Research Professor in History, the Director of the Harriet Tubman Research Centre on the African Diaspora, and the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University. He is the author of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa.
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