People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

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Author/Contributor(s): Soares, Mariza De Carvalho
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 10/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
A historical account of how slaves taken from the Mina Coast (modern-day Benin) to Rio de Janeiro in the eighteenth century reconstructed their identities, partly through Catholic lay brotherhoods.