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Divining Slavery and Freedom

Divining Slavery and Freedom

Reis, João José
Gledhill, H. Sabrina

Hardcover

Series: New Approaches to the Americas

Biographies GeneralGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 1107079772
ISBN13: 9781107079779
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 20 2015
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 for 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 to 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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