From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830

by Walter Hawthorne

From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521764092
• ISBN13: 9780521764094
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"