Leseprobe
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850
Mary C. Karasch
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century had the largest population of urban slaves in the Americas—primary contributors to the atmosphere and vitality of the city. Although most urban historians have ignored these inhabitants of Rio, Mary Karasch's generously illustrated study provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the city's rich Afro-Cariocan culture, including its folklore, its songs, and accounts of its oral history.
Professor Karasch's investigation of the origins of Rio's slaves demonstrates the importance of the "Central Africaness" of the slave population to an understanding of its culture. Challenging the thesis of the comparative mildness of the Brazilian slave system, other chapters discuss the marketing of Africans in the Valongo, the principal slave market, and the causes of early slave mortality, including the single greatest killer, tuberculosis. Also examined in detail are adaptation and resistance to slavery, occupations and roles of slaves in an urban economy, and art, religion, and associational life.
Mary C. Karasch is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Originally published in 1987.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Kundenbewertungen
Southern Africa, Brazil, Zumbi, The Slave Community, Slavery, New African, Congo River, Barotseland, Barracoon, Luanda, Traditional African religion, Africana, Freedman, Slave patrol, Araguaia (telenovela), Yellow fever, East Africa, Minas Gerais, Pedro II of Brazil, African cuisine, Colonial Brazil, Slave rebellion, Angola, Galley slave, Culture of Brazil, Liberdade (district of São Paulo), Rio de Janeiro (state), Child mortality, Color line (civil rights issue), Rio Group, Afro-Brazilians, Household, Quilombo, Atlantic slave trade, New Slaves, Tuberculosis, Brazilians, The Africans (radio program), Umbanda, Afro-Portuguese, Dahomey, Abolitionism, Brazilian literature, Manumission, Slave name, African dance, To Be a Slave, African trypanosomiasis, Order of Christ (Portugal), Disease, Tiradentes, Black Order (Satanist group), Mulatto, Black Death, Demographics of Brazil, Central Africa, Cholera, Rio de Janeiro, Back-to-Africa movement, Black Brotherhood, Slavery in Brazil, Haitian Revolution, Malaria, Quilombola, African diaspora, Africa, The Other Hand, Tetanus, Portuguese in Africa, West Africa