People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Latin America in Translation)

People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Latin America in Translation)

by Metz (Translator), Mariza De Carvalho Soares (Author)

Synopsis

A historical account of how slaves taken from the Mina Coast (modern-day Benin) to Rio de Janeiro in the eighteenth century reconstructed their identities, partly through Catholic lay brotherhoods.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 336
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10 Oct 2011

ISBN 10: 0822350408
ISBN 13: 9780822350408