TY - BOOK ID - 23591166 TI - From Africa to Brazil PY - 2010 VL - 113 SN - 9780521152389 9780521764094 9780511779176 9781139778923 1139778927 0511779178 9781139775885 113977588X 113978191X 9781139781916 9781316087725 1316087727 0521764092 0521152380 1139793306 9781139793308 1107253578 9781107253575 1283715767 9781283715768 1139777408 9781139777407 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Diaspora, African KW - Enslaved persons KW - Slaves KW - Slave trade KW - African diaspora KW - Esclaves KW - Africains KW - History KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Commerce KW - Persons KW - Slavery KW - Black diaspora KW - Human geography KW - Africans KW - Migrations KW - Transatlantic slave trade KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23591166 AB - "From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in 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. This study makes several broad contributions. 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"-- ER -