From Africa to Brazil - Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830

Informationen zum Autor Walter Hawthorne is Associate Professor of African History at Michigan State University. He is the author of Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400–1900 (2003) and has published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of African History, the Luso-Brazilian Review, Slavery and Abolition, Africa, the Journal of Global History, and the American Historical Review. Before joining the History Department at Michigan State University, he was a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont and Assistant and Associate Professor at Ohio University. Klappentext Traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia! Brazil. Zusammenfassung 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! considering why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves! why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved! and what their Middle Passage experience was like. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Hawthorne, Walter (Michigan State University) Hawthorne, Hawthorne Walter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521764094
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76409-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: African Studies (Hardcover); African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / General, African History, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery