Divining Slavery and Freedom - The Story of Domingos Sodre, an African Priest in Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor João José Reis is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. An award-winning historian and lifetime Honorary Foreign Member of the American Historical Association, he has published extensively on the history of slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil. Klappentext This book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, using the story of Domingos Sodré as its backdrop. Zusammenfassung Domingos Sodré, an African diviner enslaved in Brazil, managed to obtain his freedom and become a slave owner himself. The book uses Sodré's 1862 arrest on suspicion of witchcraft as a catalyst for discussing African religion and its place in Brazil's slave society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Cops and Candomblé in Domingos Sodré's day; 2. From an African in Onim to a slave in Bahia; 3. Domingos Sodré, diviner; 4. Witchcraft and slavery; 5. Witchcraft and manumission; 6. Meet some friends of Domingos Sodré, 7. Domingos Sodré; Epilogue.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joao Jose Reis, João José Reis, Joao Jose (Universidade Federal da Bahia Reis
• Mitarbeit: H Sabrina Gledhill (Übersetzung), H. Sabrina Gledhill (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107439092
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43909-2
• Seiten: 370
• Serien: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Schule und Lernen > Erwachsenenbildung/Volkshochschule