Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE CENTRAL AFRICA: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND THE SLAVE TRADE
- PART TWO CENTRAL AFRICANS IN BRAZIL
- 4 Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780–1835
- 5 Who Is the King of Congo? A New Look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil
- 6 The Great Porpoise-Skull Strike: Central African Water Spirits and Slave Identity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
- PART THREE CENTRAL AFRICANS IN HAITI AND SPANISH AMERICA
- PART FOUR CENTRAL AFRICANS IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
- Index
4 - Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780–1835
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE CENTRAL AFRICA: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND THE SLAVE TRADE
- PART TWO CENTRAL AFRICANS IN BRAZIL
- 4 Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780–1835
- 5 Who Is the King of Congo? A New Look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil
- 6 The Great Porpoise-Skull Strike: Central African Water Spirits and Slave Identity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
- PART THREE CENTRAL AFRICANS IN HAITI AND SPANISH AMERICA
- PART FOUR CENTRAL AFRICANS IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001