Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
• Published by: The University of North Carolina Press September 26, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0807828084
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807828083
• Book Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Review
Sweet has mined an incredibly rich source of information in the Inquisition archives and produced an engaging study of the inner lives of Africans suffering under Slavery in Brazil. His book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history.(John Thornton, Millersville University, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800.) -- Review

Product Review
"A fascinating book . . . of considerable importance. It not only contributes to a continuing debate about the nature of slavery, but is a powerful example of Atlantic history as it shows that the societies on both sides of the South Atlantic lived in a kind of spiritual intimacy that was not severed by the infamous middle passage."
- History

This book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history. (John Thornton, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800)

Sweet has mined an incredibly rich source of information in the Inquisition archives and produced an engaging study of the inner lives of Africans suffering under Slavery in Brazil. His book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history.(John Thornton, Millersville University, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800.)

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (Paperback) The ubject of the slave trade has been written about before but this bookcovers the more interesting topic of the Protuguese trade in the 15th-18th century, and particularly its affects on Africans and the relationship between the church and the slaves, as well as 'others'. This book is scholarly and perhaps slightly dry, but not startinly so, in fact it is also readable and interesting, refreshing and original. Surely this book adds scholarship to the period, espcially illuminating the relationship between slaves, brazilian society and the church in both Brazil and Portugal. Of particular interest is the work regarding the inqusitions attempts to snuff out tribal religons that remained among slaves brought to the new world. Seth J. Frantzman