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Feeding the City
On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay ...
Divining Slavery and Freedom
This book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, using the story of Domingos Sodré as its backdrop.
Life Under the Baobab Tree
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its c...
Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of family members. Taken as a whole, these legal suits create a narrative against the institution of slavery. By analyzing 30 individual cases (1810–1881) from various parts of imperial Brazil, this book demonstrates the intricate strategies of argumentation that lawyers and plaintiffs conceived to prove the right to freedom of the parties involved and to convince the authorities of it. Enslaved per...
A Refuge in Thunder
"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." —Sheila S. Walker The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomblé nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Drawing principally on primary sources, such as police archives, Rachel E. Harding describes the development of the religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks could gain a sense of individual and collective identity in opposition to the subaltern status imposed upon them by the dominant society.
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century.
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Examines perceptions of the natural world in ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period to the twentieth century.
African Culture and Global Politics
This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa's role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa has a consistent record of participating in world politics- one that pre-dates colonization and continues today. In continuance of this legacy of active participation in global political exchanges, Africans today can be heard in dialogues that span the world and their roles are impossible to replace by other entities. It is evident that a vastly different Africa exists than ones that bolster images...
Escravidão, fronteira e liberdade
Este livro discute as diversas estratégias de resistências escravas surgidas em Mato Grosso no período de 1752-1850. O recorte temporal se justiça devido ter sido em março de 1752 a fundação da primeira capital de Mato Grosso, Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, e da implantação de um aparato militar e ¬fiscal cujo objetivo era conter o avanço das tropas hispânicas para o território mato-grossense. A década de 1850 é o período-limite deste estudo. Época em que se presenciou efetivo controle por parte do poder provincial dos passos da população escrava em todo o território mato-grossense. A obra preenche uma lacuna de estudos sobre quilombos, a vida escrava nas vilas e cidades, festa, religião, família e outras formas de convivência estabelecida com ameríndios e habitantes dos domínios castelhanos (Vice-Reinado do Peru/Vice-Reinado do Prata).
Debates sobre educação no Brasil: olhares interdisciplinares vol.3
A obra Debates sobre educação no Brasil: olhares interdisciplinares volume 03 teve por finalidade dar visibilidade para o debate em torno da educação brasileira sob diversos olhares, isto é, como cada área do conhecimento (Ciências Humanas, Ciências da Natureza, Linguagens, Códigos, Matemática e suas Tecnologias) vem sendo aplicada no âmbito escolar, desde a educação básica ao ensino superior. Buscou-se discutir os entraves que historicamente assolam a educação, bem como os novos problemas que desafiam os educadores/as e educandos/as no cotidiano escolar.
