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Divining Slavery and Freedom
João José Reis
其他書名
The Story of Domingos Sodré, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2015-04-20
主題
History / Latin America / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Africa / General
History / Modern / General
Religion / General
ISBN
1316299767
9781316299760
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QR6zCAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.