Rethinking the African Diaspora

Introduction, Mann Kristin, G. Bay Edna; Chapter 1 Shifting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora and of Atlantic History and Culture, Kristin Mann; Chapter 2 The Evolution of the Brazilian Community in Ouidah, Robin Law; Chapter 3 Protection, Political Exile, and the Atlantic Slave-Trade: History and Collective Memory in Dahomey, Edna G. Bay; Chapter 4 Some Reflections on the Brazilian Legacy in Dahomey, Elisee Soumonni; Chapter 5 The Identity, Contributions, and Ideology of the Aguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin: A Reinterpretation, Olabiyi Babalola Yai; Chapter 6 Buying and Selling Korans in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Alberto Da Costa E Silva; Chapter 7 The Jeje in the Tambor de Mina of Maranhao and in the Candomble of Bahia, Luis Nicolau Pares; Chapter 8 Candomble in Nineteenth-Century Bahia: Priests, Followers, Clients, Joao Jose Reis; Chapter 9 Africa in the Reinvention of Nineteenth-Century Afro-Bahian Identity, Kim D. Butler;