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