Enslaving Connections
Curto, Jose C. / Lovejoy, Paul E.
This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known scholars deals with the important, but underexplored, topic of the transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil during the era of the slave trade (c. 1600-1850). Brazil received more enslaved Africans (approximately 4.5 million) than any other part of the Americas—ten times as many as North America, and more than all of the Caribbean and North America combined. The fo...