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951 p., Story of an elderly African, blind and dying, traveling from Africa to Brazil in search of the lost son for decades. Along the journey, she will tell her life, marked by killings, rape, violence and slavery. Set in an important historical context in the formation of the Brazilian people and narrated in a way in which the historical facts are immersed in daily life and in the lives of the characters.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Programa de Pós-Graduaç̜ão em História da UFRJ, 2005., 401 p., History of freed slaves in the region of Porto Feliz (SP), between the end of the 18th and mid-19th century when brown, black freedmen and their descendants had to created conditions for societal integration.
Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
São Paulo: Editora Contexto
Location:
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Portuguese translation of Linda Heywood, Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora selections (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)., 222 p., Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives.
Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil: Universidade de Passo Fundo, UPF Editora
Location:
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271 p., Contents: Antigos quilombos, novos quilombolas / Adelmir Fiabani --
A aplicação da Lei de Terras de 1850 no norte do Rio Grande do Sul / Helen Scorsatto Ortiz --
Filhos de criação : uma forma de produção semi-servil / Agostinho Mario DallaVecchia --
O vaqueiro escravizado na fazenda pastoril piauiense / Solimar Oliveira Lima --
Esclavitud y hacienda pastoril en el Uruguay / Eduardo R. Palermo --
O cativo, o gaúcho e o peão : considerações sobre a fazenda pastoril rio-grandense (1680-1964) / Mário Maestri.
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463 p., Contents: A polícia e os candomblés no tempo de Domingos -- De africano em Onim a escravo na Bahia -- O adivinho Domingos Sodré -- Feitiçaria e escravidão -- Feitiçaria e alforria -- Uns amigos de Domingos -- Domingos Sodré, africano ladino e homem de bens.
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259 p., Guerra do Paraguai, racismo, índios, abolicionista, Inglaterra, Portugal, anti-semitismo, Gilberto Freyre, Tratado de Methuen, portugueses, trabalho escravo, ingleses, Casa-Grande & Senzala, açúcar, hauçás, quilombos, século XVII, Lei Áurea, oligarquias, essa
Carvalho,José Jorge de (Editor), Doria,Siglia Zambrotti (Editor), and Oliveira,Adolfo Neves, Jr. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Salvador: Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais : Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia
Location:
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Papers presented at the I Seminário das Comunidades Negras do Sertão da Bahia, held at the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais in December 1993., 270 p., Contents: A experiência histórica nas Américas e no Brasil / José Jorge de Carvalho -- A comunidade rural negra do Rio das Rãs ; O processo de ocupação da região do Rio das Rãs ; A experiência comunitæria ; Símbolos e projeções míticas da história ; A comunidade negra do Rio das Rãs : remanescentes dos quilombos ; Estado atual da luta jurídica / Siglia Zambrotti Doria e José Jorge de Carvalho -- Reflexão antropológica e prática pericial / Adolfo Neves de Oliveira Jr; Seminário das Comunidades Negras do Sertão da Bahia
Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil: Universidade de Passo Fundo : UPF Editora
Location:
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da UPF, 2007., 413 p, Blacks were used in several activities of the mining universe, highlighting
work in the mines and planting gardens. With the mining crisis at the end of the 18th century there was an expansion to the interior of Mato Grosso province. Existence and use of captive labor seems to have persisted in the region until near the end the 19th century with the abolition of slavery.