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People of Faith

Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Combined Academic Publishers
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

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In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from the African West Coast, in particular from modern-day Benin. She describes a Catholic lay brotherhood formed by enslaved Mina-Mahi congregants of a Rio church in a panoramic setting encompassing the historical development of the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa and the ethnic composition of the West African-born slaves in eighteenth-century Rio called Mina slaves. Although Africans from the Mina Coast, including the Mahi, constituted no more than ten percent of the slave population in Rio, they were a strong presence in urban life at the time. Soares analyzes the role of Catholicism, and particularly lay brotherhoods, in Africans' construction of identities under slavery in colonial Brazil. As in the rest of the Portuguese empire, in Rio, black lay brotherhoods engaged in expressions of imperial pomp through elaborate festivals, processions, and funerals; the election of kings and queens; and the organization of royal courts.Drawing mainly on ecclesiastical documents, Soares reveals church records as extraordinarily rich archival sources.
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  • Author

    Mariza de Carvalho Soares

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Combined Academic Publishers

  • Published

    October 2011

  • Weight

    364g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780822350408

  • ISBN-10

    0822350408

  • Eden Code

    3979469

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