From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600 – 1830

From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600 – 1830 is an original and important addition to the growing number of studies on African ethnicities and slavery in the Americas. This carefully researched and well-written book breaks new ground in our understanding of the transatlantic connections between the rice-producing regions of the Upper Guinea coast and the understudied Amazonia area in northeastern Brazil, where rice was cultivated in the eighteenth century. As the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia, it provides a strong scholarly foundation for future researchers of African slavery in this region, enriching the comparative data on slavery studies in Atlantic history. The relationship between West Africa and Brazil in the eighteenth century is one of the most important areas of study in Atlantic history. In this work, the author examines previously overlooked actors and events in constructing a fresh narrative about...