From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures.
| ISBN: | 9780521764094 |
| Publication date: | 13th September 2010 |
| Author: | Walter Michigan State University Hawthorne |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
African history History of the Americas Slavery and abolition of slavery |
From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures.
From Africa to Brazil features in the following genres: African history, History of the Americas, Slavery and abolition of slavery
From Africa to Brazil is available in Paperback, Hardback
From Africa to Brazil was written by Walter Michigan State University Hawthorne and published by Cambridge University Press
From Africa to Brazil has 288 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series
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