Books by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
“This is an essential book. It’s dense and longer than the other books, and it covers an earlier period. It’s important for understanding how Brazil could not have existed without the region of West Central Africa, what is present day Angola. The Portuguese arrived in West Central Africa in the 15th century, and it became a Portuguese colony between the end of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th century. What the Portuguese were doing in that region, and what they were doing in Brazil, was connected. They were transporting enslaved people from West Central Africa to Brazil. When the Dutch invaded Brazil in the 17th century, they also invaded Angola and there were Portuguese troops fighting them on both sides of the Atlantic.” Read more...
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo, Historian
Interviews where books by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro were recommended
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The Last Abolition: The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868–1888
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Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
by Júnia Ferreira Furtado -
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Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
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The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
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Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888
by Jane-Marie Collins
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery, recommended by Ana Lucia Araujo
The best books on The History of Brazil and Slavery, recommended by Ana Lucia Araujo
The history of Brazil is closely connected with the history of the slave trade, with nearly half the 12.5 million enslaved Africans transported to the Americas ending up there. Ana Lucia Araujo, a historian at Howard University and author of Humans in Shackles, talks us through the books that shed light on that history and how Brazil’s past cannot be understood without also studying its connections with Africa.
