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Transatlantic Ties: Recent Works on the Slave Trade, Slavery, and Abolition

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THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN BRAZIL: THE “LIBERATION” OF AFRICANS THROUGH THE EMANCIPATION OF CAPITAL. By Baronov David. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. Pp. 236. $62.50 cloth.)

NEGROS, MULATOS, ESCLAVOS Y LIBERTOS EN LA COSTA RICA DEL SIGLO XVII. By Cáceres Rina. (México, DF: Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, 2001. Pp. 130. N.p.)

HONOR Y LIBERTAD: DISCURSOS Y RECURSOS EN LA ESTRATEGIA DE LIBERTAD DE UNA MUJER ESCLAVA (GUAYAQUIL A FINES DEL PERÍODO COLONIAL). By Chaves María Eugenia. (Göteborg: Avhandlingar från Historiska Institutionen I Göteborg, 2001. Pp. 311. N.p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Hendrik Kraay*
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University of Calgary
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References

1. David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1562-1847: A Database on CD-Rom (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

2. Interestingly, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, another West African who left an account of his journey, also experienced a relatively easy passage to the coast some seventy-five years after Equiano. See The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America, ed. Robin Law and Paul E. Lovejoy (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001), 136-48.

3. Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).

4. See Sienes, Na senzala, uma flor, 200-201 (reviewed in this essay).

5. John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

6. See Joseph E. Inikori's lengthy reviews of Eltis, American Historical Review 106, no. 5 (December 2001): 1751-53; and Klein, Hispanic American Historical Review 82, no. 1 (February 2002): 130-35.

7. For a more detailed examination of a similar community in Mexico, see Ben Vinson III, Bearing Anns for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 190-98.

8. Heywood's book can be read as a companion volume to the collections of essays produced by scholars associated with the UNESCO-sponsored Nigerian Hinterland Project at York University in Toronto, now part of the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora (http://www.yorku.ca/nhp), which focus primarily on West Africans. See, for example, Paul E. Lovejoy, ed., Identity in the Shadow of Slavery (London: Continuum, 2000) and Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay, Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (London: Frank Cass, 2001).

9. Paul E. Lovejoy, “Identifying Enslaved Africans in the African Diaspora,” in Identity, ed. idem., 12.

10. This book is a companion volume to Soares's A negregada instituição: As capoeiras na Corte imperial, 1850-1890 (Rio de Janeiro: Access, 1999).

11. For suggestive comments on the importance of urban centers in African-American culture, see Philip D. Morgan, “The Cultural Implications of the Atlantic Slave Trade: African Regional Origins, American Destinations and New World Developments,” Slavery and Abolition 18, no. 1 (April 1997): 140-41.

12. Two recent English-language works, among many others, serve as useful introductions to these questions: George Reid Andrews, Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991); Kim D. Butler, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998).

13. Stuart B. Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 39.