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.

Product details

• Authors: Joao Jose Reis, João José Reis, Joao Jose (Universidade Federal da Bahia Reis
• Assisted by: H Sabrina Gledhill (Translation), H. Sabrina Gledhill (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107439092
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43909-2
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories