Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade

Examining the slave trade between Angola and Brazil, Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural ties between the two countries.

Roquinaldo Ferreira (Author)

9780521863308, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 April 2012

282 pages, 9 b/w illus. 4 maps
23.1 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.59 kg

'… a groundbreaking historical study … a remarkable contribution to improving our understanding not only of Angola and the slave trade, but also Africa, the South Atlantic, and the Lusophone world at large.' Fernando Arenas, Research in African Literatures

This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how Atlantic slaving transformed key African institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that predated and coexisted with Atlantic slaving and made them fundamental features of the Atlantic world's social fabric.

1. An expedition to the kingdom of Holo
2. Can vassals be enslaved?
3. Tribunal de Mucanos
4. Slavery and society
5. Religion and culture
6. Echoes of Brazil
Epilogue: 7. Rebalancing Atlantic history.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH], General & world history [HBG], History [HB]