Divining Slavery and Freedom
Joao Jose (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) Reis
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Domingos Sodré, an African diviner enslaved in Brazil, managed to obtain his freedom and become a slave owner himself. The book uses Sodré's 1862 arrest on suspicion of witchcraft as a catalyst for discussing African religion and its place in Brazil's slave society.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107439092
- ISBN-10
- 1107439094
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Publication date
- 2015-04-20
- Pages
- 370
- Dimensions
- 230x155x24
- Weight
- 510