Divining Slavery and Freedom

Name: Divining Slavery and Freedom
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107439092
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The Story of Domingos Sodre, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Autor: H. Sabrina Gledhill

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Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Sla...

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Autor

H. Sabrina Gledhill

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

370

EAN

9781107439092

ISBN

1107439094

Enbook ID

09037629

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

510

Dimensiuni

155 x 230 x 24

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Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Brazil in the nineteenth century. After obtaining his freedom, Sodré became a slave owner himself, and in 1862 was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods from slaves in exchange for supposed 'witchcraft'. Using this incident as a catalyst, the book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, analyzing its double role as a refuge for blacks as well as a bridge between classes and ethnic groups (such as whites who attended African rituals and sought help from African diviners and medicine men). Ultimately, Divining Slavery explores the fluidity and relativity of conditions such as slavery and freedom, African and local religions, personal and collective experience and identities in the lives of Africans in the Brazilian diaspora.

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