Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
São Paulo: Editora Contexto
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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.
